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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
>
> Thanks, Piotr.
>
> Locative looks like a real possibility to me.
>
> Perhaps you can answer something.
>
> Would IE *bh&i- result in Lithuanian <bai->?
>
>
> Patrick
Patrick, "the haplology' to explain the Germanic weak preterite
(with all his issues "in sg. happened in pl. not happened": like a
hocus-pocus) is a much much better idea than the 'locative-one'
1. Why you don't ask him directly if k^red-dHeh1 is a noun like *mn.s-
dHeh1 or not?
2. Why you don't ask him directly why 'we don't have a locative' in
*mn.s-dHeh1 too (sic!)
3. However I cannot imagine that he can say that *bai- in Lithuanian
can be from from an unexisting bHhi-
Marius