Re: [tied] Re: Polish G. -ga

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 17566
Date: 2003-01-13

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:58:51 -0000, "tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>>
>> In particular, is there any chance the -ga may be original? In
>> Slovenian and Serbo-Croat, the pronominal/adjectival masc. genitive
>> ending is -oga/-ega (Slov. tega, njega/ga, koga [but cêsa!], adj.
>> -ega), against -ogo/-(j)ego in the other Slavic languages (including
>> Polish).
>
>Any relation of Germanic pronominal accusative -k (mik, thik, sik)?

I don't think so. I didn't see the true nature of -go until I totally
gave up that idea. Slavic *-go is simply the ablative ending *-od
(*-ot) after a vowel.

As I said before, since the Lithuanian pronominal genitive is
historically an ablative too (G. tõ, kõ, s^iõ, jõ), the origin of the
Slavic pronominal genitive should in the first place be sought in the
PIE ablative.

The uncontracted ablative form of the pronouns survived into
proto-Slavic (*is -> *eod) > *jI -> *eo, (*k^is, *k^eod) > *sI ->
*seo(d), and also *too(d), *k(W)oo(d), etc. To block the hiatus, -w-
(-v-) or -h- (-g-) was inserted, as also happens in Slavic before /o/
in the Anlaut, thus giving jego, sego, togo, kogo (Russian /jIvó/,
/s'Ivó/, /tavó/, /kavó/).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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