Re: sum

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

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

wrote:

>
> [On Slavic 'I am'.]
>
>
> > and I would see them as coming from:
> > som
> > ...
>
> That would not yield the attested reflexes. Assuming for the sake

of

> the argument that one would want to operate with a vowel between

the

> _s_ and the _m_, the only reconstruction that would yield the
> attested reflexes (Cz _jsem_, SCr _sam_ etc.) would be *sUmI,
> reflecting earlier **sumi. A hypothetical *som would probably

yield

> **sU (although linguists will probably go on arguing about the

Slavic

> Auslautgesetze until the Second Coming).
>

*sumi it is then. Are we back at PIE, or how would it look there?


Torsten