PIE Patronymic: three new files uploaded on cybalist

Dear List,

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> At 4:59:38 PM on Friday, May 11, 2007, Gordon Barlow wrote:
>
> > > Should we consider patronymical use as PIE? Was there a
> > > kind of patronymical suffix (-i, -yo, etc.) or just a
> > > genitive,something like Zeus son of Kronos = Zeus of
> > > Kronos?
> >
> > If you mean for common men, tribal or clan surnames are
> > more plausible, to me. For a commoner's patronymic to be
> > useful as an identifier, the father would have to be well
> > known.
>
> Actually, I'd expect the single idionym to be most common;
> if bynames are used, I'd expect patronymics to be among the
> most common.
>
> Brian

I've uploaded three old articles by the late Romanist Ernst Pulgram
in the List's Files section. They appear to be relevant to this
discussion, and are located in a newly-created folder named "IE
personal names". I will delete the files after 48 hours from now due
to copyright problems.

Pulgram argues for PIE personal names being *not* originally and
typically dithematic.

Kindest regards,
Francesco