Re: Back to Slava

> There does seem to be some sort of "contrastive accent", at least

in

> Greek and Vedic, whereby nouns tend to take recessive accent and
> adjectives tend to take final accent. I wonder if that was the
> result of Indo-European prosody. What I'm thinking is that, at a
> late stage, adjectives tended to be proclitic, prosodically
> speaking. Combined with a weakening of the earlier accentual
> paradigm, accent on adjectives was levelled and tended to be
> rightmost since the primary accent in the *phrase* was on the head
> noun. As I've stated before, it seems to me that thematic
> adjectives were originally adjectival genitives in nature (e.g.
> bhr.tó- '[something] carried' < 'of/from a carrier'). Thus the
> earliest thematic adjectives would have been end-accented as well.
>

Is the -t- of Latin 'potis' etc an agent suffix?

Torsten