Re: [tied] Battle of the cow

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:34:06, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>But I'm hesitant... I would dare interpret "cow" another way,
>without *H3. How 'bout this:
>
> Mid IE Late IE
> obl.sg *gWa:u nom.sg *gWo:u-s
> loc.sg *gWow-i
> gen.sg *gWau-së gen.sg *gWous
> obl.pl *gWa:u(-ës) nom.pl *gWo:w-es

Two tidbits of friendly advice:
1) There's no lengthening in the nom. pl.
2) Webster's defines "oblique (case)" as "a grammatical case other
than the nominative and vocative". Why did the Mid Indo-Europeans
think differently?