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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
> Wait, just thinking some more.
>
> Why is *y included in this set? What instances of nominative
> loss exist after *y? When I think of *rei- "property", there's
> Latin /re:s/ with *-s. Szenerenyi didn't include *y, did he?
> So then where does that come from? Anyone have insight?
The oy-stem seen in Vedic sákha:, acc. sákha:yam, dat.
sákhye 'friend', Av. haxa:, haxa:im, has^.e: 'id.';
the ey-stem seen in Av. kauua:, acc. kauuae:m, gen.pl.
kaoiiaNm 'priest' (Vedic kaví- 'sage');
Greek oy-stems like peithó: 'persuasion', the goddess' name Le:tó:,
the verbal noun e:khó: 'echo', and some others -
- all have an asigmatic nominative. They do not show the /y/ either,
but that may be fortuitous, for the /y/-segment is certainly present
in the Hittite class zahhais, -ain, -iyas 'battle', zashais 'dream',
lingais, -iyas 'oath' etc., which has restored the -s in communia,
but not in the colectives hastai, -iyas 'bone', luttai, -
iyas 'window'. The type plays a role in Tocharian, but details are
hard to pin down, cf. however at least B lyauto, obl.
lyautai 'window', the last from *-oy-m. .
The combined evidence points to a nominative in *-o:y alternating
with *-o:(:), just like *-o:r ~ *-o:(:).
This must be enough to establish the type for IE.
Jens