Proto-Indo-European
[edit]Possibly from a particle*i(“here”) and related to*í-(“this”).[1]
*-i[1]
- Adverbial suffix withlocative meaning
- Athematic nominal ending of locative singular[2]
This suffix was often optional, both as adverbial suffix and as nominal ending.
- ↑1.01.1Dunkel, George E. (2014), “*-i”, inLexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 1: Einleitung, Terminologie, Lautgesetze, Adverbialendungen, Nominalsuffixe, Anhänge und Indices, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter,→ISBN, pages133-136
- ^Lundquist, Jesse; Yates, Anthony D. (2017–2018), “Chapter XX: Proto-Indo-European”, in Klein, Jared S.,Joseph, Brian D.,Fritz, Matthias, editors,Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft[Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science];41.2), Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton,→ISBN, § The morphology of Proto-Indo-European, page2085
