From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 6600
Date: 2001-03-15
>[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).I was going to make the same points. But why isn't Akkadian -i a
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>[2] Latin Gen.sg. -i is a late formation, and Akkadian -i definitely isn't a genitive ending.
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>[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.
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>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.