Re: [tied] -h2

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Pavel A. da Mek" <a.da_mek0@...>
wrote:

> I do not know what it was in some Pre-Pre-PIE,
> but in the attested material it has clearly the same functions as

Semitic

> "-at",
> collective and feminine.
> (Maybe the feminine marker originated in honorific use of collective

marker,

> similarly to the honorific use of pl. "you" instead of sg. "thou".
> Or maybe the collective marker was originally used
> speaking about a pregnant woman.)

I think the magic word has been said by Von Soden: Most animals living
in herds have one male and a multitude of females. Therefore, it is an
observable fact that the many are the female.

Jens