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Re: Indo-European *es-

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 13:43
S'mae,
Ysgrifennodd Jesse S. Bangs:
> > ... actually, it was *Hs; the H surfaced as /e/ in late Common IE in > > certain > > clusters, but as [zero] in others, hence the distinction in, say, > > Latin > > between 'est' and 'sunt', both of which come from *Hs- plus ending. > > According to Sihler's _New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin_, it > was actually *Hes-. I forget which laryngeal he has. Anyway, the form > *Hs- would only have occurred in zero-grade forms. The Latin forms in s- > are the end result of a long and complicated process of clitic > strengthening and weird analogies, and don't reflect a PIE *Hs-.
What about Church Slavonic so~ti, corresponding to L _sunt_? And the other IE langs? Same processes or what? Hwyl, Pavel