Re: *-om ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> > Anyway I think my idea stands: there is a path
> > > from genitive to nominative.
> > >
>
> BTW is there a connection between gen.pl. *-om and the collective
> suffix of *(d)km-t-om ?

Perhaps the suffix is *-tom. Interestingly this shows up in numerous
African languages (of different families) with the meaning "to
count." Perhaps *tom was borrowed from Afro-Asiatic (or perhaps Proto-
Semitic?) and was used in both o- and zero-grade form in certain
numerals (see also *septm which is a probable Semitic borrowing).