Re: PIE i- and u-stems again

> No because you do _not_ get the same result. Adding -n to the
> thematic vowel would result in a paradigm:

Now you're talking!

> +kato-n-s
> +kato-n-m
> +kato-n-Vs
> +kato-n-ei
> etc.

That would be pre-thematic vowel, so PPIE
*kat-V-n-s
*kat-V-n-m
*kat-V-n-Vs
*kat-V-n-ei
etc.

> Instead of what it actually is:
>
> *kat-h3o:n
> *kat-h3on-m
> *kat-h3(e)n-os
> *kat-h3(e)n-ei
> (or something along those lines)

The h3 of the Hoffmann suffix is there to add o-color in the
appropriate cases. The thematic inflection also has the problem of an
o-colored Nsg that shouldn't be there, so why fix it with a soluton
that is not common to thematic and n-stems, but special to n-stems?
So PIE
*kat-o:-n
*kat-o-n-m
*kat-(e)-n-os
*kat-(e)-n-ei
is no worse than
*kat-os (-oz?, -ons?)
*kat-om
etc


Torsten