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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > As I try to keep reminding myself, there's always a downside to a
> > snappy comeback. In this case you have just agreed with me that
> > *bHo:r- didn't necessarily mean "habitual thief" from the beginning.
>
> But there is such a thing as the prototypical meaning. A "thief" is
> prototypically a kind of habitual criminal, i.e. somebody who keeps
> stealing things, and only secondarily anyone who has pinched
> something, sometime, somewhere.
>
> > So *bhe:r- would mean "carrier, porter" if it had existed ...?
>
> Yes. 'Carrier', unmarked for habituality, frequency or notoriousness.

But there is no word *bhe:r (that we know of) in IE.

- Rob