Re: [tied] PIE Word Formation Q&A (1)

From: Mate Kapović
Message: 44039
Date: 2006-03-31

On Sri, ožujak 29, 2006 9:12 pm, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:
> On 2006-03-29 17:31, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> I can't see a shred of evidence for any such claim. Does *h1ek^wos mean
> 'horses'? One interesting property of the thematic vowel is that in
> never disappears completely. If *h1ek^wo-s means 'horse' and *h1ek^wi-o-
> means 'horse-related, equine' (RV as'vya-; cf. also Gk. hippi-kó-s, with
> a different suffix), if *wl.kW-o-s means '(he-)wolf' and *wl.kW-i-h2
> means 'she-wolf', and if, in general, thematic *-o/e- and *-i- occur at
> the end of otherwise identical stems in complementary distribution, the
> most natural conclusion is that they are allomorphs of each other.

What do you think about a theory that the feminine *-ih2 is identical
originally with Latin/Celtic/etc. genitives in -i:?

Mate