Etherman23:
> It's weak because *bhi is obviously a particle that
> became an inflection in some languages. It seems
> more obvious to me that *-e- is a plural (possibly
> from an earlier *-i- which would be cognate with
> Uralic *-i plural, and/or PAA *-a-).
Yes, we seem to be agreeing (aside from the AA
comparison). There would have to be a common
_oblique_ plural *-i, used in complement with *-it
(IE *-es, Tyr *-er, Ur *-t, Alt *-r^) in the strong
cases. This plural is an artifact in plural IE
pronouns like *wei-.
Comparison between Uralic and EA shows that *-i
seems to alternate with a plural in *-t and I believe
that this is the original pattern from Proto-Steppe.
= gLeN
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