[tied] Re: Nominative Loss. A strengthened theory?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
Or is *o: in *-o:m a contracted *oo?

I'm almost sure it is. It has a circumflex in Greek too, and it
counts for two syllables in the Avestan Gathas. And there's the
heavier jer reflex in Slavic.

Jens

> Interestingly, Dybo (by mostly accentological considerations --

namely, the

> effect of the "new circumflex" in Slovene in SCr. in the G. pl.

forms)

> insists on a special "long jer" *-U: as a Sl. *o-grade G. pl.

marker (SCr.

> S^t. -a: being -- according to him -- its direct reflex).