Re: Negation

From: G&P
Message: 61903
Date: 2008-12-06

>I've long had an idea that the -ter suffix of names of
>relatives are locative-marking suffixes,

Two other ideas that have been around for a while are:

(a) it is contrastive, and related to the *–ter-os we see in comparatives.

(b) it is not –ter at all, but *-@... or *-Hter  (*p-Hter, ma-Hter, bhra-Hter, and so on).

Peter