Re: [tied] Bader's article on *-os(y)o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

>
> Rob, always perfectly analytical:
> >> So, then, what did the *-ó element originally mean?
>
> Jens:
> > "Belonging to -, characterized by -".
>
>
> Gee, Jens, that almost sounds like a genitive in *-ós that
> has been misanalysed as a thematic nominative, doesn't it.
> Amazing how you can deny what's right in front of your face.

It's been there all the time, and I have myself been silly enough to
be fooled by it, but I have been through a learning process. I have
seen that the analysis of the genitive in *-os as a nominative is
incompatible with the allomorphy of the thematic vowel, so I have
had to give it up. If some day it turns out to be correct after all
it will be in spite of the information we have now. Still, that
cannot be excluded.

Jens