Re: [tied] Re: Various loose thoughts

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From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <s.tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 7:25 PM
Subject: [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".

Hm, but the fact is that only -u- does *not* disappear from the last
syllable in Latvian. Cf. in o-stems Lith. -as : Latv. -s and in u-stems
Lith. -us : Latv. -us. Also, *-u is preserved in Auslaut as well in Latvian.
Thus, it couldn't have been *-mus in pre-Latvian.

Mate