From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20455
Date: 2003-03-28
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] slavic "za"
> If it was once a noun, wouldn't you expect to take the genitive, cf
> eg. ON til + gen., cognate of German 'Ziel' "goal"?
Or maybe the ablative, whose functions were taken over by the genitive in Germanic (while some Slavic genitives are former ablatives. An ablative form such as *g^Hoh1-od would suit me fine.
Piotr