Re: [tied] Re: Prenasalization, not ejectives cause of Winter's law?

On 2006-09-24 18:13, tgpedersen wrote:

> On the subject: Oettinger observes with glee on p. 164 after having
> served an instance and half from Hittite (tepu ~ tepnuzzi, skt.
> *dabhu- dabhnóti) that the theory that adjectives in -u and verbs
> in -nu belong together is now vindicated. On p. 165 he mentions
> that Benveniste wants to connect skt. dabhra- with Hittite tepu-.
> So: -u-, -ro-, did I miss anything?

No, that's right. As I was saying, *-ú- and *-ró- are "the same". But
the Caland pattern doesn't include suffixless forms.

> *dm.néh2-ti, *dmnh2é-nti ?

Yes.

> But the existence of an n-infix (here analogical?)

Why should it be analogical?

> does not
> prove that it participated in the verbal nu-suffix.

The pattern is the same: *-né-/*-n- inserted before the final consonant
of the base.

Piotr