From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 39787
Date: 2005-08-26
----- Original Message -----
From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]
<snip>
> We also have the case of the dialectal change of
> oblique cases in *-bHi- to *-mi-. This has long been
> known to have occured. But why? One motivation for
> this post-IE shift could very likely be the fact that
> a sequence of *-omi- was otherwise lacking because of
> the sound change rule I suggest. So starting in
> thematic stems, *-o-bHi- could be pronounced *-o-mi-
> since there would not have been a contrast between
> the two sequences anyway.
>
>
> = gLeN
***
Patrick:
-*bhi and -*mi are two separate and unrelated particles.
***