[tied] Re: Back to Slava

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> 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.
>

But could you deal with Latin re:gi:na and the Germanic fem. suffix
*-in-ja > German -in (English vix-en) in the same way?


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