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

From: mcvwxsnl
Message: 32762
Date: 2004-05-19

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
> Assumption ignoring reality. There are no suffixes with labialized
> phonemes at the end in IE. No **-hW but we have *-x as the
collective
> and *-ex as the later feminine, even instrumental *-eh with *h1.

We have nom. dual thematic *-eh3 (= pl. *-esW), and *-h3(-) (= pl. *-
sW) as the general dual marker (e.g. 1pl. pp. obl. *nh3-we, *noh3,
2pl. obl. *uh3-we, *woh3; cf. pl. *ns-me, *nos; *us-me, *wos).

The plural marker is *-sW, as demonstrated by the fact that it gives -
k` in Armenian, and that the locative affix *-i gets Umlauted to *-u
in the loc. pl.

The 1sg. thematic verbal ending is *-o-mW, *-o-mW-i (> *-omWu),
regularly giving Tocharian subj. -u (*-ow), ind. -eu (*-o:w).

>We never see **-kW either.

Of course not. We also don't see *-k.