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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2009-06-04 19:46, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > The vocalism is not *gWen-h2-/*gWn-ah2-h2 belongs to the word stem.
> >
> > (so to write here -h2- and -ah2-/-eh2- to explain the vocalism is not ok)
>
> Jens Rasmussen convincingly argues in one of his articles that the *-h2
> must be suffixal and that the 'woman' word is an *-(e)h2- stem (but an
> ablauting one, and so different from ordinary "thematic" feminines).
>
> Piotr
>
I didn't read that article so I don't know Jens' arguments.
But if you have invoked it, your are obliged to go with that argumentation till the end.
Otherwise you have only asserted that:
"h2 must be suffixal because you have understood this from an honorable person"
Generally Speaking if -h2- is a suffix in gWenh2- :
I need to see a root gWen- with a clear semantism and words related to it....and next to understand the meaning of the -h2- suffix and to check its semantism against 'woman, wife' semantism
Marius
P.S.
On my side, I'm sure, that everybody here, have understood in what consist Schrijver's Model regarding mo- > ma- in Latin.
(On this model, Piotr, you did everything else 'around' but you couldn't find anything to say directly on it)