Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Apart from the nominative supposed *-z, all the succeeding
> consonants that cause the thematic vowel to be /o/ are nasals. Now
> suppose the nominative ending was instead *-ns (<- *-ms ?); then
> they were all nasals. In that case we might have */aN/ > /ãN/ >
> */õN/ > /oN/; that would explain the timbre.

No, there are also /y/, /w/, /d/, vowels and perhaps some voiced
aspirates. It's not a matter of nasalization.

Jens