Re: The name of the name

> As you know, Tijmen Pronk discussed jImeN at IWoBA 2 in
> Copenhagen. I've found the handout now. On the whole, I
> would tend to support (with him) an interpretation as a.p. c
> (ORuss. pó imeni, Slov. imê^ < i``meN), which makes the
> Slavic evidence inconclusive as far as *n. versus *n.h3 is
> concerned. Which is why I didn't mention it in my initial
> discussion.
>

That pó imeni gave me an idea (I assume it meant "by name" and was
thus frequent?). Suppose there was false division *pó_nimeni ->
*pon_imeni -> pó_imeni? Cf pojmú ~ pónjatI, vozImú ~ vzjatI, primú ~
prinjátI etc.


Torsten