Lynx (was Re: Uralic and IE)

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Glen and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01 at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 11:49 PM

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> I didn't mean that there were no STEMS that ended in *-nk-, just to
> clarify. I said that such stems always have a suffix after them so
> that there is no final *-nk ever in IE. In the case of *lunk-, it ends
> in *-s in the nominative, hence *lunks, or *-m in the accusative, etc.
> but there's never a complete word like **lunk with a final *-k.

I think you might want to review what a 'stem' is. In the case of Greek
lu'gx, lunk- is the *root*, which serves as a base *without* additional
formatives (whixh would produce a stem),  to which -s is added.

[ Moderator's comment:
  I think you might want to review what a stem is:  The stem is whatever is
  left after the grammatical ending is removed.  This may be a root form, or
  an extended root (which *in some traditions* is called a stem).  I would
  reserve the term "root" for the CVC items described best by Benveniste in
  _Origines_.
  --rma ]

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Pat

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