Re: [tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses (was: the palatal s

>Yes, I think it's pretty obvious that the lengthening seen in the
>sigmatic aorist stem and in the animate nominative are connected
>with the only other thing they have in common, i.e. the /s/.

And yet one of the arguments that -s caused the lengthening was the very
absence of the final -s in animate nominatives that showed lengthening
(Szemerenyi page 116 section 6.2.7.1).
Since the sigmatic aorist keeps the -s-, while the nouns do not, the
lengthening cannot be due to the same causes.

Peter