Re: [tied] PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with'

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with'


> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> >
> > (outside of the topic: Skt. nábhas is derived (see Lubotsky) as *nebh-
> > o- also Grk. néphos is derived (see Beekes) as *nebh-o- too (but of
> > course o is not part of the PIE-root *nebh-)
>
> You must have misunderstood something. The noun is a showcase example of
> an -es-stem neuter, with the nom./acc. in *-os (with a _zero_
> inflectional ending!), gen.sg. in *-es-os, etc. The stem-forming suffix
> is therefore *-es-, alternating apophonically with *-os (cf. Slavic
> nebo, gen. nebese, Gk. nepHos, gen. nepHeos < *nebH-os, *nebH-es-e/os).
> Your *nebH-o- simply doesn't exist.
>
> Piotr

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Patrick:

I believe the apophonic variation (Ablaut) shows, rather suggestively, that
the suffix is _not_ -*es but rather -*s that has drawn the stress-accent
from the root syllable.

That is interesting because it suggests that the word *CVC was developed
from an earlier *C'VCV.

I have identified this suffix (-*s) from my work as signifying 'state or
condition'.

There does seem to be a suffix with a similar affect in -*s, which is in
rare use to form usually adjectives characterized by color or outward
appearance.

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