[tied] Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their thematic vo

> The e-nominatives are typically simple action nouns or agent nouns

with

> stative values like *ne:k^-s 'death', *pre:k^-s 'prayer, request',
> *spe:k^-s 'watcher', *gWHe:n 'killer' or *dje:u-s 'shining'. In the

weak

> cases the accent moves to the inflectional ending: (*pr.k^-ós, *diw-

ós,

> etc.).
>
> The meaning of the o-nominatives always involves iterative or
> resultative nuances, e.g. *bHo:r 'robber, thief' (= 'one who

regularly

> takes things away'), *wo:kW-s 'utterance, speech' (= 'the effect of
> speaking') or *do:m 'house, building' (= 'the result of

construction').

You can't be certain that *bHo:r- isn't "stealer at this particular
occasion" and not "habitual thief".
It would suit me nicely if the reduplicated *Ce-CeC- stem was
iterative (since "plural" in nature) and *CoC- was contrastively
resultative (the /o/ being a re-stressed schwa).


Torsten