From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 43004
Date: 2006-01-17
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:03 AM
Subject: [tied] -o/i- in Compounds (was: PIE comparative)
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
>
> > ***
> > Patrick:
> >
> > If I understand the situation, this compositional variant in -*i is
> only
> > used in N+N compounds and _not_ in N+V. Is that correct?
>
> Not with *dwi- - there's Sanskirt _dvija_ 'twice born', thus 'bird,
> brahmin', and many other compounds.
>
> Richard.
***
Patrick:
Well, I really should have written NObj + V.
***