Re: [tied] IE *de:(y)- 'bind'.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-
language@...> wrote:

> > Did you not write about *-t as an agentive formant in

another

> thread?

JER:

> I did; was that a crime?
>
> ***
> Patrick writes:
>
> And you do not think that has any bearing on *-to as a future-

prospective formant?

> ***

Not as I am informed at the moment, no.

>
> JER:
> > If the remarkable Indic forms with iraj- are related it must

be

> a
> > laryngeal.
> >
> > ***
> > Patrick writes:
> >
> > *H3o- as a prefix also contains a 'laryngeal'.
>
> You can't derive Indic ir- from *H3or-.
>
> ***
> Patrick writes:
>
> *H3reg^-, zero-grade.

*H3reg^- is full grade, its zero-grade is *H3rg^-. You apparently
operate on the assumption that a presumed preverb "*H3o-" will take
to ablauting in its position before the verb. That is not a normal
behaviour of preverbs. The evasive "preverb o-" is not known outside
of Greek, except for the isolated *ó-sd-o-s 'branch'. The laryngeal
in *H3reg^- is directly proved by Hittite harganau- 'finger' and
Avest. &r&zu- adj. 'erect' or m. 'finger', reflecting *H3r.g^-ú- and
in part a factitive verb *H3r.g^-n-u- 'make erect, stretch out'.

Jens