[tied] Re: PIE genitive plural *-o:m, a possible analysis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-04-25 12:05, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> >> Nouns of
> >> the type *po:d-s 'foot', *nokWt-s 'night', *wo:kW-s 'voice', *do:m
> >> 'house', etc., are free-occurring lexemes, not bound forms.
> >
> > Of course they are. I said they originated in bound forms.
>
> And why should anyone believe that?
>

I have thought of setting up a system of bribes for that to occur. In
the meanwhile I find solace in Grassmann's biography.


Torsten