Re: [tied] Beekes and the animate nominative *-s

--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

> ... And this still doesn't explain to me how animates are
> associated with *-s and inanimates with *-om. ?? It's a really
> loose idea. Are theories nowadays no longer required to make full
> sense?

I saw a theory that some IE -om 2nd declension neuters such as {yugo-
m} = "yoke" were originally transferred from the 3rd declension and
the -om- was once part of the stem. The transfer came because the -om
ending sounded like 2nd declension acc.sg. From that started a habit
of using -om as a neuter thematic declension ending.