Re: Neuter (n.a.) = abl.?

Embarassing correction:

> Now how could a case have been borrowed? But we don't have to
> assume that, cases were originally postpositions, which were
> originally particles, in this case *tV or the like. It may also

have survived in Russian 'ot' "from", Latin 'de'.

> The alternation d/t is probably the result of cliticization and
> decliticization. The fact that the PIE ablative mostly is *-d,
> but the Skt. ablative is -t and the Hittite is -az could be
> explained similarly.

Torsten