On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, R. Rankin wrote: > I'm not sure what John was referring to in his reply to my post about > 'be alive' requiring a different verb from thi or othi, ... Did I say that? I thought I was saying that reflexes of *hti 'dwell' in the sense 'house, lodge, etc.' occurred with or without o-, and generally without an pluralization.