[tied] Re: *swesor

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:05:39 -0000, "tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >Rereading
> >
> >Émile Benveniste: Indo-European Language and Society, London 1973
> >
> >I discovered that many of the phratry/moiety things I mention came
> >from him. And Miguel analysed the -ter "either" suffix many

postings

> >back.
>
> Did I? My current thinking is that there is no *-ter suffix in the
> kinship terms, but a *-h2ter suffix (*pa-h2tér-, *má-h2ter-,
> *bhra:-h2tér, etc.).
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Sorry for my faulty memory of your version of the suffix. Did you
propose that the suffix meant "one or the other" (or perhaps I got
that from Hermann Möller exclusively)?

Torsten