Re: Proper methodology (was: RE: [tied] Re: Mother of all IE langua

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:28:17 +0100 (MET), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:

>I do not know what the element
>is there for - it is absent from the verbal endings

It's there. The 2sg. *must* be **-tu > *-tW > *-sW > *-s. Otherwise it
would have been *-t.

>I do not know on what basis *swey has been posited in the first place. If
>it has been invented to account for Celtic *swi:(s) 'you (pl.)'

That and Hittite sume:s, -smas, Avestan xs^ma, Tocharian -me.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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