Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule

> I don't think *-ex-m would have as much as lasted half a century.
> Consequently I don't think the second paradigm ever existed.
> Recall that that /x/ (= h2) alternated with plain /k/; /x/ word-
> finally, /k/ otherwise. Eg. Latin 'vorax' (-k-s). Without nom. -s:
> Gr. gune: gunáik-.
>
> The whole feminine -a: inflection arose _after_ (*-ek > *ak) *-ax >
> *-a:, by dressing up the new perceived stem *-a: with the endings of
> the o-inflection.
>

Another attempt to create oblique cases for an *-ek stem:
Lat. senex (< *senax ?), senem, etc. But that path could not be
generalised, stems in *-ek- would have the same oblique cases as stems
without.


Torsten