On 05-02-09 01:00, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> The nominative *pótyo:n is directly reflected in Tocharian B
> petso (e < *o, ts < *ty, -o < *-o:n).
How about the following analysis: *pot- 'able, powerful' we get the
stative *pót-eh1- 'be able' (pres. *pót-h1-je/o-, as in Ved. pátyate)
and from that the participle *pót-h1-ont-, hence fem. *póth1n(t)-ih2 >
*pótnih2. The i-stem noun may actually be *pot-h1-i-s/*pot-h1-j-os (>
*potjos), hence the failure of Brugmann's Law.
Piotr