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

> And that's where I contend that PIE had *pe:s but *-po:s. That
> confusing situation would have to the occasional mistakes *po:s and
> *-pe:s. Latin resolved the situation in the direction of the unbound
> form: tri-pe:s, quadru-pe:s, Greek chose the bound form as pattern
> (because of some old undocumented shibboleth conflict?).

Cf this possible solution to the "wrong" prothetic vowel of odont-
"tooth":

Nom. *h1den-s > *eden-s
Obl. *h1dont- > *edont-

which leads to the regularised paradigm

Nom. *edon-s
Obl. *edont-

which is hypercorrected back by some to

Nom. *eden-s
Obl. *edent-

and "hyper-regularised" back again (by the first party?) as

Nom. *odon-s
Acc. *odont-


Torsten