[tied] Re: Back to Slava

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

> On 05-02-14 15:26, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> No, these seem to contain the zero grade of the Hoffmann suffix

added to

> the compositional form of a thematic stem, with a final *-i- (*-i-

+

> -Hn-o-). <re:gi:na> is analogical. The old form was *h3re:g^-n-ih2

as in

> Skt. ra:jn^i:, and that of course _is_ parallel to *potnih2.
>

I probably should have done more homework, but what's the Hoffmann
suffix, and what does it do?

Torsten