Re: [tied] The Hoffmann suffix

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 36435
Date: 2005-02-21

 
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Subject: Re: [tied] The Hoffmann suffix


On 05-02-19 17:56, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> I agree that singulative -i"nU is most likely connected to
> *(ed-)i"nU "one", for which we have to assume a form
> *h1oiHnos in PBS (without de Saussure's other law), to
> explain the acute.

Yes, and I wonder why practically everybody ignores that. Have you got
any fresh ideas about the derivation of *h1oiHno- (or was it something
like *h1ei-H(o)n-/*h1oino-)?

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PCR:
 
I am wondering why *H3Vi- cannot be regarded as the ultimate basis for this word?
 
 
Patrick