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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...>
wrote:
> I can't see how could *-oom or *-o:m yield Slavic -7. And we know
for sure
> that *-om does.
Well, this is supposed to be an empirical science. If there are no
other cases of *-oom or *-o:m in Slavic, we really cannot know for
sure what becomes of such a protoform if there was one. The fact is
that there is no other evidence for a short vowel in the genitive
plural in Indo-European. Many languages have a shortening before
final /-m/, so what is so terrible with a reflex of *-oom looking
like that of *-om? And is there absolutely no indication of a larger
amount of compensatory lengthening in Slavic before the reduced
gen.pl. ending than before that of the acc.sg.?
Jens