Re: [tied] Re: PIE i- and u-stems again

On 2007-02-16 21:54, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> You said earlier that words of the "Cato type" may have been
> "originally -n(t)- participles of stative verbs, derived in
> turn from adjectives (*X-h1-on(t)- '[singled out as] being
> X').". But stative verbs, like e.g. Slavic slabêti (< slabU
> "weak") do not contain the thematic vowel. The suffix is
> *-éh1- (aor. & inf.) ~ *-éih1- (pres.sg.) ~ *-h1i-
> (pres.pl.), not *-o-eh1- ~ *-o-eih1- ~ *-o-h1i-.

Isn't it *-é-h1- (aor.), *-é-h1-je/o-, where *é is the thematic vowel
(before a voiceless consonant), corresponding to athematic
*-éh1-/*-h1-jé/ó-?

Piotr