Re: Russian v(o), s(o) & k(o) (was: IE Thematic Vowel Rule)

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

> Sounds exactly like PIE ablaut. I pointed out to my instructor

that

> the preposition seemed to gain what the pronoun lost (obo mné, o
> tebyé), and he hadn't even noticed. The point here is that there

is a

> sequence of syllables with half-dead vowels, jers, and some die,

and

> some are resuscitated, according to some rule. It reminds me of
> Skt. imperf.
>
> ábharam
> ábhar
> ábhar
>
> or Latin
>
> fero:
> fers
> fert
>
> which I'm told, but don't believe, are peripheral phenomena:

something

> disappears before unvoiced which survives before nasal.

I think you would profit even more from something that could remind
you of the Sanskrit imperfect as it is:

ábharam
ábharas
ábharat


Jens