IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Stanley Friesen <sarima at friesen.net> wrote:

>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?

Pretty reasonable.  The o-stems show a good number of pronominal
endings, and may well once have been definite adjectives,
comparable to the later development in Balto-Slavic.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl