Re: ficken

On 2008-01-21 00:32, stlatos wrote:

> Greek has plenty of nouns ending in -gmos and -gma:, Latin has none
> in -gmus or -gma but others with -mus and -ma after other C or V. The
> only way to account for this is m>m.>n.>n after velar stops in Latin
> (a sim. rule in Germanic).
>
> Also, the last time I remember you mentioning this you said that
> o-mo nouns came from *-mn and so dismissed e-mo and 0-mo words I gave
> to disprove a PIE origin of m/n-alternations (that supposedly occured
> depending on the presence of a labial in the root). Is this another
> thematicization you're proposing or did you slightly modify your
> version of this theory?

I'm not its author. If you re-read Jens Rasmussen's account of how it
works, you will see that roots with *u normally don't get the O-infix
but remain nil-grade.

Piotr