Re: [tied] Composition/thematic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> On 2006-01-20 11:54, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > This is a dumb question, since I don't know enough details to

reject

> > this idea I got:
> >
> > Is it possible that thematic nouns derive from shortened

versions of

> > composites (leaving out the second component), so that the

thematic

> > vowel is actually the composition vowel -o- ?
>
> But there was no "composition vowel" *-o- in PIE (as opposed to

some of

> the daughter languages, where it represents the generalised *-o-

of

> thematic first members).

Hm. How do we know that? Don't the occurences in the daughter
languages match?


Torsten