*-o:y in Lithuanian (was: Nominative Loss. A strengthened theory?)

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 32200
Date: 2004-04-23

> From: elmeras2000 [mailto:jer@...]

> Well, not quite. Decisive evidence would show that *-o:y yielded
> something else in some dialect that has -uo~ in the o-stem dat.sg.

You are demanding too much. Where else there's a chance to find a reflex of
*-o:y word-finally? *-o:y- yields Z^em. -ui- (zu~i~kis 'hare') in the
inlaut, but that's not enough...

Sergei