Re: [tied] IE genitive

Practically the entire morphology of PIE has been reconstructed. The
genitive of aH2-stems is not unproblematic. One expects the gen.sg. to end
in *-aH2- + the zero-grade of the gen. morpheme /-os/, i.e. *-s. But Greek
and Lithuanian agree on a circumflex long vowel, so the actual form
appears to be *-aH2-os and not the expected *-aH2-s. The full-grade
alternant *-os must be analogical, but still of PIE date.

Jens

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, alex_lycos wrote:

> I am not aware if there are reconstructions for genitive in IE. If yes
> then which should be the genitive sg. of feminine IE words which ends in
> "-a"?
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