[tied] Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

From: mcarrasquer
Message: 47056
Date: 2007-01-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mcarrasquer" <miguelc@...> wrote:
>
> I derive it [the Gpl.] from *-õm, which is required by Lithuanian
> -uN~. The Lithuanian form cannot be from *-om (> -aN), or from
> *-o:m (> -ù ?).

Actually, *-o:m would also have given Lith. -uN~ (cf. a:-stem acc. sg.
*-ah2m > *-a:N > -aN [not acute]). But *-õm is of course required by
Greek Gpl. -õn.