Re: etruscan, Lydian and Greek inscriptions

> I was just quoting Archimedes answer to the Roman soldier: Noli
> disturbare circulos meos. There is one thing that has puzzled about

IE

> acc *-m, though. Sanskrit -m is weak, Latin -m disappears in poetry
> according to metric rules, Greek says -m -> -n, and everywhere else
> it disappears. Slavic nasalizes. So perhaps -m was only a
> nasalization of the previous vowel? Note the use of -m in present

day

> Portuguese.
>

Today's Lithuanian nasalized (and lost nasalization except for some
dialects) as well in auslaut, but the normal clear [n] sounds in
inlaut, in compounds such as s^ian~dien 'today'<*s^ian~ die~nan 'this
(Acc.) day (Acc.). Unbounded words' sequence would give s^iA die~nA
(with slightly prolongated denasalized A).

Sergei