[tied] Re: Various loose thoughts

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

> If we accept OLith. -mus as being a reflection of
> BSl. *-mas, then we can just presume that BSl. *-as yields

regularly -U in

> BSl. This can only solve the ancient question of which is regular

*nebhos >

> nebo or *wlkwos > vlUkU. Scholars which posite BSl. *-mus believe

that

> *nebhos > nebo is the regular development and that *wlkwos > vlUkU

is

> irregular (via some analogy which can be quite simple). Others

believe that

> PIE *-os yielded OCS -7 regulary and that -o in s-stems is

secondary (via

> *nebho(d) or similar). I like the analogy theory better in o-stems

than in

> s-stems but if Slavic -mU in dat. pl. is to be derived from *-mos

this would

> be in accord with the other solution.

I prefer a solution more or less along Andersen's lines: *-is, *-us >
*-ix, *-ux, then *x analogically spreads to the *o-stems (*-as -> *-
ax etc.; an analogical explanation is inevitable for *x in at least
some non-RUKI environments anyway) but not to the N.sg. of the *s-
stems, where the final *-s was supported by the oblique cases (*nebas
retained its *s after *nebes-es). Desinential vowels then are raised
before *-x [-h], but not before *s, and eventually the *C of -VC# is
deleted.

Sergei