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

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:41:41 +0200, Mate Kapovic
<mkapovic@...> wrote:

>kamy could also be from pre-ProtoSlavic *Hakmo:ns (like in a.
>pl. of o-stems) where the *-s is analogical for older *-o:n which is
>reflected as -uo~ in Lithuanian. This is an easy solution and we need only
>to assume that *-o:ns > -y and with your solution we also have *-o:ns > -y
>but "superlong" *-o:: > -y as well. Of course "superlong" vowels include
>r-stems as well in their explanation...

Well, I also used to think that kamy < *[h2ak]mo:ns, with
restored nominative *-s. It works, but I was never really
happy with it. It goes a bit against the spirit of the
language (whether PIE, PBS or PSlav), and there is no
parallel for it anywhere else.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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