Re: [tied] Re: PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with' => *kseud- & *ksud-

On 2006-01-07 18:06, Miguel Carrasquer 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.
>
>
> Doesn't it become -i-, rather?

Perhaps, though this "Caland" -i- is hard to distinguish from a
Sieversian vowel inserted after a heavy syllable (the length of the
vowel can hardly be significant here). Perhaps the formative suffix was
simply dropped in the comparative, as in the case of *-u- adjectives, so
we have *kséud-(i)jos- from *ksud-ró- just like *pléh1-jos- from *pl.h1-ú-.

Piotr