Re: primary endings

>
> > > -m and -s are then either portmanteau morphemes with the

double

> > > meaning "my V-ing", "thy V-ing" respectively, or were once -t-

m

> > and
> > > -t-s, respectively.
> >
> > Vaillant actually suggested (in a BSL paper of 1937) a

derivation

> of
> > 2sg *-s from **-t-t. I used to be frightfully impressed by it,

but

> > today I cannot accept it. Stems in *-t are not passive

participles

> > as he wanted them to be, and -tt does not yield -s in any other
> > cases we know.
> >
> Active participles would be nice.

*-s-s
would > -s, and no one would know

*-s-t
Russian 3sg. dast, "will give", est "will eat", German ist, 2sg -st

*-t-s
Several odd examples in -ts in 3sg. in OPrussian, according to
Schmalstieg

*-t-t
would > -t, and no one would know


Torsten