From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 54039
Date: 2008-02-23
----- Original Message -----
From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:23 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
>
> ***
> By *H3ei- he means the *oi of *oi-no-s.
Correct. Of course *Hoi could also be correct.
> 180° from the right answer; the oerative word for 'one' is -n(o)-; the
> *H3ei- is merely deictic.
I think not. There are three forms attested in various IE languages
and they go back to:
*Hoikos
*Hoinos
*Hoiwos
*k, *n, and *w must be root determinatives.
***
These are not root determinatives.
They are second elements of compounds with the deictic: *k^-, 'other'; *n-,
'one'; *w-. 'piece' (from *b-)
Patrick