Re: [tied] Talking of locatives [Was: Some thoughts...]

On 04-10-05 23:48, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:15:47 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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>>In other words, does the
>>locative *-i derive from older *iN?
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> In that case, we would expect to see *-ir, as perhaps in
> "here" < *k^e-ir.

Syllable-final sequences of PIE *i or *u plus a nasal or liquid were
rare and restricted to special cases where the morphological motivation
to stabilise them is obvious (infixed nil-grades like *linkW- from
*leikW-, accusatives of *-i-/*-u- roots). It's quite imaginable that if
*-ir ever arose word-finally, it was quickly simplified to *-i.

Piotr