Re: [tied] Re: Thematic vowel etc

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:35:09 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>One more Sturtevant quote, ibidem:
>
>The enclistic pronoun _-as^- 'is' [he] contains the pronominal stem
>that appears in Skt. _asya_, Av. _ahe_ 'eius'. The reason why this
>stem is so rare in IE is that it has been supplanted by the
>conglomerate _tom_, etc.

It's not rare at all. It's rare in the nominative and
accusative, but that because in Hittite the forms *os, *om
have supplanted original *is, *im.

>The connective _to_ might be followed by
>other envclitic pronouns, as in Hitt. _ta-as^-s^e_ 'et ei, et sibi'.
>Such are IH _sme_, _smy_ that appear in Skt. _tasmai_ 'ei' ans
>_tasmin_ 'in eo'."
>
>I can't understand why he doesn't recognize his own reconstructed
>accusative *_som_ in IH _sme_, _smy_ here (eg. *to-os-so-om-o-i etc)?

*to-smo-ei, *to-sm-i-n, where *-sm(o)- is probably from *sem
"1". There is no accusative *som in PIE (the form is *tom).

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