Re: Accusative was allative

From: tgpedersen
Message: 31535
Date: 2004-03-24

Anyway I think my idea stands: there is a path
> from genitive to nominative.
>

From Shields: Indo-European Noun Inflection

Brugmann: "Bei den 3, Personen kann statt des Nominativs auch ein
partitiver Gen. das Subject bilden, z.B. av. <kat_ tå: paTå: fraya,n
pasvam va: staora,m va: nara,m va: na:Irina,m> 'dürfen diese Pfade
betreten Kleivieh oder Zugvieh, Männer oder Frauen?'." Thus <-m>,
gen.pl.

Similarly in Hittite <was^tulas^> "of sin" (< <was^tul> "sin"), which
may have the meaning "sinner".

Torsten