Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives/SIBUN

>>The presence of a laryngeal at
> > the end of 8 seems clear (Sanskrit shows -au and -a, and cases with
> > both -a- and -a:-), and the ending -o: points to -h3.
>
> Hardly. The ending was *-oh1, not *-eh3. You have *h3ekWih1 > OCS oc^i,
> Greek osse in which -e shows that the dual ending was *-h1 and not *-h3.

You are assuming that the word is a dual. This assumption is based on the
form of the ending, and therefore cannot later be used to deduce the form of
the ending - that would be a circular argument.

If there is independent evidence either that the word is dual, or that the
ending is -h1, I'll accept it.

Peter