Re: [tied] IE vowels: The sequel.

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:03:28 +0200 (MET DST), Jens Elmegaard
Rasmussen <jer@...> wrote:

>My student Fabrice Cavoto will be pleased to see his protoform accepted,
>but he would probably be more pleased if it had been used for something
>sensible. As it stands, you are saying that the verbal nouns in
>*-men-/-mn- with added postposition *H1en-/H1n- 'in', i.e. "in carrying",
>"in utilizing", mean "being carried" and "being utilized" when used in the
>genitive, and a genitive marker positioned *after* the relational
>postposition at that.

I know you reconstruct the Hoffmann suffix as
*-h3on-/*-h3n-, but I remember Piotr defending an
interpretation with *h1. Could it be "having carrying" =>
"being carried"?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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