[tied] Re: Various loose thoughts

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...> wrote:

> That it was *-mas < *-mos
> originally is proven by Old Latvian dat. pl. which has -ms which

can come

> from older *-mVs with the *V being anything *but* -u-! And of

course, *-mos

> corresponds to PIE *-bhos very well.
>

It seems something has definitely changed from 1948 when Endzeli:ns
wrote (_Baltu valodu skan,as un formas_, par. 187) that "What vowel
has disappeared in Latvian between m and s can't be established with
certainty; most likely it was the same u as in Lithuanian".

Sergei