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

From: enlil@...
Message: 33201
Date: 2004-06-11

Miguel:
> The EA 1st and 2nd p. sg. markers, as well as the reflexive,
> are voiceless 1. *-k > -ng, 2. *-t > -n, 3R. *-c > -ñ, while
> other suffixes, such as the dual and plural are voiced (du.
> *-g > -k, pl. *-d > -t).

My spidey senses are telling me that this supposed EA reconstruction
is flawed. The "voiceless" markers would appear to be in reality
nasals while the "voiced" markers are actually voiceless to begin
with. In that way we have Boreal 1ps *-uN equating properly with
former *-ux elsewhere, 2ps *-un with the ProtoSteppe 2ps intransitive
*-un and then the plural, being in reality *-t, is from Steppe *-it.
Finally, Boreal languages gained a dual suffix using the numeral
'two' (presumably *kaN) in a similar way to Icelandic /-t/ but this
is not found outside of Boreal so let's just accept it and move on.

The whole is that there was _no_ voicing in Boreal.


= gLeN