Re: [tied] Re: Another way of arriving at ablaut

tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Probably more like the hiatus you proposed for the suffix of Slavic adj.
> m./n. gen.sg. -o.o- > -oGo- (> -ogo-)/-owo-. BTW could something similar
> be responsible for Slavic m./n. gen.pl. -o.om- > -o.U- (note the
> German pronunciation of Slavic placenames in <-ow> as /-o:/) > -ow > -ov
> -of ?

The gen.pl. -ow comes from the u-stems, where it is regularly -owU < *-ow-o(:)m or *-ew-o(:)m.