Re: long or short o?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "studey22" <lookwhoscross-
eyednow@...> wrote:

> I was told that the Masculine nominative singular -os in Gaulish
> was pronounced long rather than short, while in Greek the

nominative

> ending -os is pronounced short.
>
> However, if the Gaulish -os is pronounced long, then how come
> whenever Gaulish words are written in reference books (Mythology,
> etc.), a macron is never placed over this nominative -os ending to
> indicate its long? A macro is always placed over another vowel,

but

> never -os.

Diabole Domine! The Gaulish suffix -os is always short! It is a
direct output of the IE nominative singular suffix of the /o/ stems!
In no IE language there is an output with a long vowel! It would be
absurd!
Cfr. Latin -us, Greek -os, Proto-Germanic *-az > Gothic -s, Old
Norse -r; Lithuanina -as, Vedic Sanskrit -as, etc...
Nothing justifies a long vowel here, and to say it corresponds to
basic ignorance of IE morphology.

Regards

Marco