On 2006-01-07 15:06, tgpedersen wrote:
> How about this: -r is the endingless locative of n-stems. That takes
> care of the Germanic 'locatives' in -r (here, there etc) too.
My original intention was a "grand unification" of *-tó-, *-nó- and
*-ró- as reflexes of a single type. As far as I can see, the only
possible common denominator for them is *-nt- plus thematising
derivation. *X-ó- adjectives generally mean 'pertaining or belonging to
X, connected with X', so something like *kWr.-t-ó- 'done', if derived
from the active participle *kW-ént- 'doing' (referring to the agent),
makes sense as 'connected with the doer', more or less.
As for the endingless locatives of heteroclitic _nouns_, they usually
show a final *-n plus suffixal stress, which _may_ indicate a lost
enclitic (perhaps identical with what otherwise appears as *-i). Thus,
we have *ud-én rather that *!*wéd-r. In compounds, on the other hand,
the form with *-r is preferred, cf. RV ahar-ahar- 'day by day' vs.
loc.sg. ahan, ah(a)ni.
Piotr