Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

Do you think Olsen is right?

I would doubt it strongly.


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')


> On 2008-03-24 19:48, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > do you think there is any chance that *o-stems are a result of the
> > suffixing
> > of the first element of the Hoffmann suffix (*H3)?
>
> Frankly, no chance at all. By the way, the thematic vowel (also in nouns
> and adjectives), is *-e/o- rather than just *-o-. For example, the
> vocative of *wl.kW-o-s is *wl.kW-e, and the neuter collective or
> feminine of *new-o- is *new-a-h2 < **new-e-h2 (not **new-o-h2!).
>
> If Olsen is right about the Hoffmann suffix being originally a verbal
> noun ('load, charge, burden'), then of course the initial consonant
> can't be detached from the rest.
>
> Piotr
>
>