[tied] Re: -m (-n)?

> Well, *dek^m. is from *dek^m.t, so it doesn't really end in *-m.
> *newn. (or *newm.) does, but there is no need for Semitic

intervention: the

> variants found in the word for "new" (*newy-os, *new(e)r-os)

suggest a

> Caland alternation *new-m/*new-n/*new-r/*new-y, which is Indo-

European, not

> Semitic.
>

As for the Caland system: I think it's odd that a number of IE roots
should have a separate system of suffixes. In a language like
English, this indicates that the roots, with their suffixes, are
loaned (eg. from Latin or Franch), perhaps the same is the case in
PIE (although the donor language may be long gone).

Torsten