Re: [tied] Re: Origin of Thematic Neuter -om (was: 1sg. -o:)

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:22:18 +0000, etherman23
<etherman23@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:
>>
>> Etherman23:
>> > Don't you find it just a little bit too coincidental
>> > that there's a reconstructable particle *H2ebhi?
>>
>> Shouldn't that be *h1ebHi with *h1? You're basing this
>> on the Anatolian locatives like Lycian /ebi-/, right?
>
>I just double checked and it's actually H3ebhi, as in Lat. ob.

Latin ob is likely from *(h1)op(i) ~ *(h1)epi.

I don't know a Lycian ebi- (I know a ehbi, but it means
"his" < ebehi). Since Lycian vowels are affected by
pervasive regressive Umlaut, non-final vowels offer no clues
as to the original vocalism.

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