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

Jens' initial claim:

> Because it was **még^-eH2 that became *még^H2.

Jens explains:

> Certainly it's athematic, the vowel of the ablauting
> suffix //-eH2-// is not the thematic vowel.

But the athematic feminine suffix is *-ih2 so we
expect *megih2.

> It is all based on the derivation of the Vedic
> acc. mahá:m from *még^-oH2-m. [...]

Only Vedic. That doesn't carry much weight in IE
and I don't know where the hypothetical feminine
in **-oh2- comes from. The feminine is *-eh2 with
*e due to Schwa Diffusion because *-h2 was unvoiced.
There can be no **-oh2 unless it is *-o-h2.


= gLeN


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