Re: I need help explaining basic linguistic concepts to a lay person

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> J. W. Love wrote:
> > Actually, Peter, the Baldi you typeset* implies (p. 304) that <fe:mina>
> > is indeed some sort of <fe:-> plus the PIE suffix <*-men->. . . .

> There's no /f/ back in PIE, so at best that explanation is mixing items
> thousands(?) of years apart.

Right; that's why I said "some sort of," but perhaps it would be
technically truer to say "the Latin root <*fe:->, reflecting some PIE
root (and I'm in no position to determine what it was), plus the Latin
suffix <-min->, reflecting what Baldi says was the PIE suffix
<*-men->." OK?

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