Re: [tied] -phóros, -phorós, -fer

*-bhorós and *-bhóros. Since they are thematic, they are derived

> by generalizing an athematic root noun N *´-bh&r.&s, G *-bh&rós,
> decompounded N *bhór-&s, G *bh&rós. First an adjective was formed
> from it by generalising its genitive: N *-bh&r-ós, G *-bh&rós-yo,
> then the action noun was formed by generalising the nominative: N
> *bhór&s, G *bhór&s-yo.

should be N bhór-&s, G *bhóros-yo (since the *a -> *e/*& rule had
ceased operating)

>(And then somehow the remaining schwa's were
> turned into *o's by mutual influence, or whatever)

And now the spread of *o's in the paradigm makes more sense.


Torsten