Re: [tied] The disappearance of *-s -- The saga continues

From: elmeras2000
Message: 31922
Date: 2004-04-14

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...>
wrote:

> Let's see: *-o:ns > IIr, Celtic (Old Irish -u, Celtiberian -us?)
> *-ons > Gothic, Old Prussian?
> indecisive - Latin (same as Greek), Greek (original or Osthoff),
BSl (there
> is a lot of mangling there in a. pl., I would prefere the secondary
> laryngeal in *-ons from eh2-stems)

What silliness is this? Why would a pre-Balto-Slavic set masc. *-
ons, fem. *-aH2s change to *-oH2ns, *-aH2s? This does not even look
analogical.

Jens