Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

But quite a drama for Mrs. Olsen because she didn't say anything
about the stress-pattern in her theory (at least I'm not aware about
this)
meh2ter is a problem and
bHreh2ter is another problem too.

Marius

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Another point is morpheme boundary.

I'm not sure this set of family-words
is the place to refute Ms. Olsen,
be she right or not.

Personally, I tend to think that
an early stage of PIE made a
false-cut in *me?t-er "child-bearer"
which became *me?-ter
Out of that a number of other words
were created with -ter
BhreH2-ter
swes-ter
There is no Olsen effect
because these words are
locked in their own system with -ter
as one obvious morpheme.
The connection of these words is still
obvious in many languages :
father, mother, brother, sister
père, mère, frère, soeur.

This also explains why me?-ter
did not become *mader in Eastern PIE.

The case of father *p°-ter is tricky.
I'm not sure there ever was a H
in this word.
It's nursery word papa
rearranged to be included in the -ter list.
I'm highly sceptical about *pH1-ter
There is no p_H1 nowhere in the world.

Arnaud

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