[1] Those that do (thematic neuters)
reflect PIE *-o-m. The vowel *-o- belongs to the stem, and the real inflection
is *-m. In Akkadian the nominative marker is actually -u- (see [3]
below).
[2] Latin Gen.sg. -i is a late formation,
and Akkadian -i definitely isn't a genitive ending.
[3] Latin -am is the Acc.sg.
ending of feminines; it derives from *-a:m < *-ah2-m, where *-ah2- is part of
the stem, so that the accusative ending is actually *-m. In Akkadian, it's -a-
that is unique to the accusative, while -m occurs in nominatives and genitives
as well. Latin has accusatives in -um (< *-o-m and *-u-m), -a-m, -e-m (<
*-i-m and *-m), as well as uninflected ones. You arbitrarily picked the only
form that seemed to match the Akkadian accusative.
Various vowels and nasals recur in
inflectional endings in virtually all languages that have such endings. What you
showed here was not even coincidental agreement but a
brute-force attempt to make non-matching forms match by comparing them at
random.
Piotr
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Beekes and the animate nominative
*-s
As I recall, some Latin nominatives end in
-um. -i is often the
genitive ending. -am is sometimes the
accusative ending. Similar to
Akkadian.