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Indo-Hittite Collective Nouns with a Laryngeal Suffix

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Edgar H. Sturtevant
Edgar H. Sturtevant*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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Scholars are accustomed to deriving the Indo-European neuter plural ending -ā/ə from the ending -ā of the feminine singular. Since I am convinced that the feminine gender was developed after the separation of Hittite (or rather Proto-Anatolian) from the parental stock, I have suggested that we should rather assume that the singular collectives were originally of neuter gender; although they seem to have become feminine in Proto-Indo-European.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 24 , Issue 3-Part1: July-September , September 1948, pp. 259 - 261
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Copyright © 1948 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Lang. 14.75, 245 f. (1938); CP 36.358–64 (1941); Indo-Hittite Laryngeals §41g (1942).

2 HG §183a.

3 E.g. Brugmann, Grundr.2 2.1.159.

4 Lang. 14.239–44 (1938).

5 IH Laryngeals §70 and fn. 11 (1942); Lang. 19.293–312 (1943).

6 Mémoire 135 ff. (1879).

7 Rev. de phonétique 2.101–25 (1912).

8 De Hethitische Ḫ 312–16 (1937).

9 Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 56/57.186–90 (1947).

10 The Indo-Hittite and Hittite Correspondences of Indo-European ə, Lang. 17.135–88 (1941); and The Indo-European Reduced Vowel of the e-Series, Lang. 19.293–312 (1943).

11 Lang. 14.239–44 (1938).