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

At 6:54:47 PM on Saturday, May 14, 2005, C. Darwin Goranson
wrote:

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

> I can't see how it would derive from the first syllable of
> satem.

It doesn't. Others here are much more familiar with the
developments than I, but I'm awake, so for what it's worth,
my understanding is that PIE *k^ > Lith. s^ and PIE *m. >
Lith. im~, um~ are regular. Thus, there's nothing
surprising about *k^m. > s^im~.

Brian