From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 63754
Date: 2009-04-03
>I think a comparison with other constructions in -od-,-ed- and/or -m.d- would clarify this
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
>
> > > Anyway, it isn't likely to come from
> > > *bHos-od- (whatever the origin of the strange suffix), as such a form
> > > would have been affected by the open-syllable lengthening of *o
> > > (Brugmann's Law).
> >
> >
> > Even *bHos-od- has this issue .. bHVs- inside is obvious....
> >
> >
> > Marius
>
>
> 'Anyway' ?
>
> Skt. páti- is from PIE *poti- where the /o/ was clearly there 'from the begining' and the syllable is open too
>
> So you know as me that there are additional explanations for such situations ....
> (see <1.5> in https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/2666)
>
> Or the syllable was really closed (I think so) and we don't have only -m.d or -od- ...in *bHos-od- / *bHos-m.d-
>
> Marius