Re: [tied] IE Pots and Pans (Was: Back to Slava)

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:24:53 +0000, elmeras2000
<jer@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>> But Caland aside, I think that an /i/ was also present in
>> the essive/fientive suffix *-eh1- (*-eh1i-). I see no other
>> way to explain the Baltic and Slavic reflexes /e:/ < *-eh1-
>> (aorist, infinitive), /i/ < *-h1i- (Baltic present) /i:/ <
>> *-eih1- (Slavic present).
>
>If you can keep a secret

Mum's the word.

>until I have published it (which must be
>soon anyway), I will just say that my present understanding of the
>stative marker is that it is /-H1eH1-/, identical with the
>instrumental case-ending (allowing, e.g., Ved. sus.t.utiá: with
>syllabic -i-), and further identical with the suffix of s-stems (s/t-
>stems) and with root *H1es- 'be'. These all share an essive or
>fientive function.

It sounds interesting, but it doesn't solve my problem with
the ê/i-stems. I still think that *-h1-yé- as in Vedic (or
should I say *-h1&1-ye- ~ *-&1h1-ye-) would have just merged
with *-yé- in Baltic and Slavic, while *-eh1i- gives the
expected Balto-Slavic forms (and in its zero-grade form
before voiced consonant or vowel makes a good point of
departure for thematized *-h1y-é-).


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