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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...> wrote:
> He posites *-mus < (reduction) *-mas < dial. PIE *-mos. So *-mus is
not
> acuted which could also maybe be proved by Lith. dialects by
different vowel
> quality (Sergei?).
No modern Z^emaitian dialects have retained the uncontracted ending,
so one has to refer to Old Lithuanian texts of Z^emaitian stock. I'll
try to look through what I've got to hand, but if I remember
correctly, most of them simply don't orphographically differentiate
between [o.] (which would point to an old short *u) and [u] (which
would point to an old long vowel/diphthong -- *u: or *uo). BTW,
Z^emaitian is rather inconsistent in reflecting desinential *úo :
eg., it has [u] in the *o-stem Acc.pl. ([ke.~imùs] <kiemùs>), but
[o.] in the *o-stem I.sg. ([ke.~imò.] <kiemù>) and 1 praes.sg.
([lò.pò.] <lupù>, [kô.ndo.] <kándu>)
Sergei