Re[2]: [tied] Root of "marten," "sable"

At 6:11:25 PM on Saturday, May 14, 2005, C. Darwin Goranson
wrote:

>>> On a similar note, what if there was a nasalized vowel
>>> in Proto-Indo-Aryan-Balto-Slavic, like *khąt@...,
>>> with the "a" nasalized and the @ as a schwa?

>> How would you get such a nasal vowel to yield Lithuanian
>> /im/?

> To be honest, I can't even see how "im" somes from satem
> (much less *kha,t@...), save from the last two letters.
> Please explain.

The Lithuanian word is <s^im~tas>; Jens was asking how the
/im/ of the first syllable could derive from your */a~/.

Brian