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

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:29 AM
Subject: 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

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Patrick:

Thank you, Piotr.

It would have taken me forever and a day to find those examples - providing,
of course, that I _did_ find them.

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