--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
> Is the -t- of Latin 'potis' etc an agent suffix?
>
> Torsten
Perhaps. The word is certainly morphologically complex -- I'd say
either *pot-i-s or *po-t-i-s. However, the Vedic form pátih. does
not seem to fit the reconstructed o-vocalism (the form should be
*pá:tih. via Brugmann's Law, I think).
- Rob