Re: [tied] jer / full vowel question

On 2007-01-29 23:42, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> The pattern seems to be *téwe ~ *twé => *twé-bhy- (vs. *méme
> ~ *[m]mé => *[m]mé-g^hy- c.q. *méwe ~ *m[w]é =>
> *m[w]é-g^hy-), which gives Skt. táva ~ tvá- ~ túbhy- vs.
> máma ~ má- ~ máhy-, Slavic tébe ~ tob- vs. méne ~ *mon-,
> with different kinds of levellings, assimilations and
> dissimilations going on.

Just a thought: how about the old orthotone forms being reduplicated?

**m-wé m-we > *mé me > *méme ~ *méne
**t-wé t-we > *t(w)é we > *téwe
**s-wé s-we > *s(w)é we > *séwe

The meaning of the original elements:

*m-, *t-, *s- person markers
*-we suffix forming personal pronouns

The *w was lost after labials earlier and more consistently than after
coronals, which accounts for the different pattern of dissimilations.

The enclitic forms were simply:

**m-we > *me
**t-we > *twe, *te
**s-we > *swe, *se

Piotr