Re: Negation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "G&P" <G.and.P@...> wrote:

>
> >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.

Which is locative in a dual context, ie "on the one side, on the other
side", like at a river.

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

Actually, that by false division paH-ter > pa-Hter yielded a new
suffix -Hter.


Torsten