Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mcarrasquer" <miguelc@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mandicdavid" <davidmandic@>
> wrote:
> > > > Slavic vodá might be backformed as a
> > > > singular (hence the mysterious f.) from the regular *vódy <-
> > > *wódo:ns.
> >
> > That's more likely than *wodo:r > voda.
>
> It isn't likely at all. How could a nominative in -y be
> interpreted as a genitive

Reading the above quote (from Torsten), the reference seems not to be
to a genitive, but to a plural. But what plural? The plural of a
neuter n-stem would be *undena: (*udena:, *wodena:, *wondena:, ...),
or (as in Hittite) the collective *udó:r ~ *wedó:r itself. That makes
even less sense.

>, when -y is a perfectly normal
> nominative ending (of masculine n-stems and feminine uH-stems).

For feminine -a from a consonant stem, cf. also nogá < *nagó:ts <
*h3nóghWo:ts, as I suggested the other day. (In fact the idea came to
me while considering the possibility of vodá directly reflecting the
PIE C-stem).