Re: [tied] Water, pre/postpositions, somewhat OT

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:26:37 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>> The root of <ipini> and its variants such as <ibeni>,
>> <imini> is more difficult to pin down. My guess is that
>> i-pin-i represents *e-b(V)hin-i, while i-ben-i, with i-
>> pointing to a high vowel in the root, is *e-beh(i)n-i or
>> *e-bain-. <imini> is straightforward from *e-bin-i. If we
>> combine all these, we get a possible root *-behin- or
>> *-bahin-, where /h/ can be read as the hiatus left by the
>> loss of an earlier consonant (not /n/).
>>
>
>I recognize that line of reasoning wrt. /e/ > /i/ in the verbal
>prefixes from Trask. Could the same rule have applied also on nouns,

Apparently not.

>so that ibai < *ebai (there's nothing to stop one from assuming a
>lost h- in all verbs)?

What do you mean?

>In that case the two roots are getting pretty close.

Which two roots?

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