Re: [tied] -o/i- in Compounds (was: PIE comparative)

On 2006-01-17 15:18, Patrick Ryan wrote:

>>Not with *dwi- - there's Sanskirt _dvija_ 'twice born', thus 'bird,
>>brahmin', and many other compounds.
>>
>>Richard.
>
> Well, I really should have written NObj + V.

I don't think there is such a general restriction in verbal governing
compounds, cf. Gk. pseusi-stuks 'hating falsehood' or Lat. armi-ger
'bearing arms'. Of course there are a great number of language-specific
compounds with "linking *-o-", but these may easily be innovations based
on the free forms of thematic nouns.

Piotr