From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 34068
Date: 2004-09-07
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:superlative
> >
> > Richard:
> > > Should I take it from this you're confident that the
> > > suffix (PIE *mo) always had the precursor of the thematicvowel in
> > > pre-PIE?again?
> >
> > I lost you. What does the superlative have to do with *dekm
> > Are you talking about "tenth", a combination of *dekm +genitive
> > *-os which later is analysed mistakingly as *dekm-mos with thehelp
> > of its rhyming twin *septm-mos (a Semitic numeral)? Therecertainly
> > is no **dek- meaning "ten" so it's very tentative to relate thetwo
> > together based only on similar sounds.Counting on the left hand and then the right hand, the tenth finger
> Also, the reconstructed IE word for "right" is *deksteros, correct?I'm not sure we can go beyond *dek^s-. *deksteros is at best