Re: PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with' => *kseud- & *ksud-ró

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

>
> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:34:09 +0000, Richard Wordingham
> <richard@...> wrote:
>
> >One thing that bothers me about the 'like but not the same' meaning is
> >that the -ro- disappears from the comparatives and superlatives of
> >adjectives, e.g. ks.odi:ya, ks.ódis.t.ha from this word.

Correction: ks.odi:yas-

> Doesn't it become -i-, rather?

I don't see any evidence for that in the superlative.

Is there evidence for a systematic -i- in such comparatives? It's not
obvious to me that the 'extra' -i:- in the comparative (in both Greek
and Sanskrit) is due to such an alternation.

Richard.