Re: [tied] jer / full vowel question

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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

The forms were not so short. As the theory that PIE had so
few *b because b>w has already been thought of, the pos. that
*teb+xYi > tebhxYi but *teb+ > tewe, etc just as xYmeg+xYi

> xYmeghxYi (so egxYom is due to metathesis) is evidence in

favor of it.