Re: [tied] Re: Back to Slava

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:22:06 +0100, 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 *pótnih2 is the feminine of *pótis (*pótyo:n), not of
*pót-h1-onts.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...