From: alex
Message: 29675
Date: 2004-01-16
> ----- Original Message -----Piotr, we are at the PIE root here as you observe, I hope you agree.
> From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Latin pinso etc.
>
>
>> like in ipsum > ins (individuum)?
>
> This is an irregular and probably relatively late truncation
> (something that very often happens to fixed phrases and compounds).
> The whole argument is about nothing anyway. <$arpe> doesn't derive
> directly from the sigmatic nom.sg. *serpe(n)s but from the secondary
> oblique stem *serpe- (*serpem). I can't explain it more clearly than
> I already have done.
>
> Piotr