[Fwd: Re: Fw: [tied] A question of reliability - Matasovic and "Gen

> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "C. Darwin Goranson" <cdog_squirrel@...>
> >> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:00 PM
> >> Subject: [tied] A question of reliability - Matasovic and "Gender in

IE"

> >>> I'd like to know is what he's saying is considered to be sensible or
>not. Such as the feminine *-eh2 and *-ih2 being posissive suffixes
>originally.

I am forwarding Matasovic's message:

Ranko Matasovic wrote:
<Just to clarify what I am saying in "Gender in IE": there was a
possessive <suffix *-ih2 and it is one of the sources of the feminine
motion suffix *-<ih2; there was never a possessive suffix *-eh2, but the
feminine motion <suffix *-eh2 is partly derived from the early PIE
collective in *-eh2
<(which is also the origin of the late PIE Nom-Acc pl. of the neuter
<thematic stems).

Mate