Re: [tied] Re: Active / Stative

>> The first step is *-osyo, *-asyo > *-esyo. The -e- should then
> >survive, since the syllable is closed. Neither would be reduced

to -ijjo.

> Allright. But /ei/ is of course reduced to /i:/, so we have
> *-eiio > *-i:o.

We don't have /ei/ we have /eyy-/, which survives. We know it survives
because we see it in inscriptions etc, and we know it continued to survive,
because of Italian reflexes of maior, peior, etc, which clearly show *-eyyo-

Peter