IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Stanley Friesen]

At 08:42 PM 2/26/00 -0500, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>Especially since the original PIE word itself -- *h(2)rtkos -- is itself
>probably a nominalized adjective (via a stress shift), from *h(2)rektes; see
>Sanskrit raksas, "destruction".

This brings up a little hypothesis of mine: the principle origin of the
thematic inflection of nouns (the o-stems) was via nominalization of
adjectives.

How reasonable is this?

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