Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)

Rob Haden palsalge:
> PIE *kerd and *genu are inanimate nouns.  The reconstructed form
> for 'foot' is *pots, which I think may be erroneous.  Latin has pes,
> pedis; Greek has pous, podos.  These point to a problem with current
> reconstructed PIE: what was the original genitive suffix, *-es or *-os?
> Perhaps we can find the answer to this question.
With a time machine, surely. Are there some IE languages with a genitive
suffix in -Xs, where X is a back vowel other than /o/? If these are few,
I'd say that it's most likely -es. Of course, it could have been both.

Still, I'm in way over my head here, so I won't pretend to have any
helpful or informative comments to give.


~Wright
Kepfeites en kecevron.
/kepfe'ites En 'keSevrUn/ [kE'pfEjtez En 'kESevron]
I have bid insanity goodbye.

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