[Fwd: Re: [tied] Re: IE lexical accent]

> >> > It is anybody's guess what *-oom is.
> >>
> >> The genitive plural of the Late IE period.
> >
> > You don't say? Well again, where did it come from? Oh yes, it

was lying

> > around.
>
> Yes, it WAS lying around at the time. The genitive plural however

was

> established a little while earlier and was not originally a

genitive.

> I've already said that the genitive orginally did not mark

plurality based

> on the overall examination of the nominal paradigm. The genitive

plural

> derives from an originally locative meaning in fact.
>
>

Beside the *-o-ot Miguel claims for Slavic adj. gen. sg., if memory
serves (> *-o.o > *-owo etc) gen. pl. -o-om is the only case of PIE
*-o-o- I know of. It obviously points to itself as "this is an o-
stem, followed by the gen.pl. suffix *-om" Thus it must indicate
some once important distinction from athematic plain *-om.

Torsten