Re: [tied] Re: Dissimilation of gW/kWVw to gVw/kVw

From: P&G
Message: 37430
Date: 2005-04-28

> None of these restrictions apply to PIE *-iko-, which was
> clearly a native suffix.

Or nativ-ised. How would we tell the difference? Think of -ess in English,
which is thoroughly nativised, but which goes back through Latin to Greek,
where it is an alien import. So -ess is probably not even Indo-European in
origin. But could we tell that just from the way -ess operates in English
today?

Peter