Re: [tied] The disappearance of *-s -- The saga continues

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From: "elmeras2000" <jer@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] The disappearance of *-s -- The saga continues


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...>
> wrote:
>
> > We have evidence for *-o:ns as well as for *-ons.
>
> I don't think so. I think we have unambiguous evidence for *-o:ns
> and ambiguous evidence for either *-ons or *-o:ns. The only
> reconstruction satisfying all the evidence is then *-o:ns.

Let's see: *-o:ns > IIr, Celtic (Old Irish -u, Celtiberian -us?)
*-ons > Gothic, Old Prussian?
indecisive - Latin (same as Greek), Greek (original or Osthoff), BSl (there
is a lot of mangling there in a. pl., I would prefere the secondary
laryngeal in *-ons from eh2-stems)

What about Old Prussian -ans in o-stems? What happens to long *o: in
Prussian?

Mate