On the abuse of mekkis

Now for poor ol' /mekkis/ which was also abused by Jens
in other pseudoproofs signifying nothing. (That's all right
little one, he won't hurt you anymore once I'm through with
him... hehehe)

Okay, after much ponder, I realized that there's no doubt
that /mekkis/ is a "calandized" thematic noun *megxi-s
that was converted out of a noun *megxo-s "strength". I think
the pattern is that adjectives are converted to nouns by
shifting the accent to the initial but when converting
thematic nouns back into adjectives, one changes the *-o-
to *-i- and we shift the accent back to the end. In effect,
the semantics of *o-adjectives and *i-adjectives would be
identical but it would be like saying "green" versus
"green-ey". That would explain the origin of feminine
*megxi-x (since it would mirror a feminine noun form *megxe-x)
and *megx (mirroring an identical athematic neuter noun form
*megx).

So it's simply presumptive to link /mekkis/ automatically to
the feminine of all things when it merely has an animate
connotation anyways. And I think this explanation makes the
best sense. The above pattern would say that /mekkis/
merely comes from *megxi-s and that does follow the sound
laws. So, very simple. No **meg-ox- needed.


= gLeN