Re: [tied] Bader's article on *-os(y)o

On Sun, 16 May 2004 13:27:21 +0000, elmeras2000
<jer@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>>
>> For what it's worth, the ablative sg. does not seem to
>> support Ausgleich. The non-Anatolian form is perhaps *-od
>> rather than *-ot. But Hittite -az can only come from *-ot-i
>> (*-od-i would have given *-as).
>
>Well, I frankly don't think that is worth much, and I do not
>understand what it is supposed to show us here.

If a supposed 3sg. ending *-od became *-et because of the
influence of the variant with *-i (3sg. *-eti), then the
same might have happened in the ablative, if that was *-od ~
*-oti [=> *-ot ~ *-oti], which is not the case.

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