Re: [tied] Re: sum

>> They arose as reduced forms in South Slavic. Serbo-Croatian has full
>> forms jesam jesi jest jesmo jeste jesu and enclitic sam si je smo
>> ste su. Slovene has only the reduced forms sem si je smo ste so. The
>> Freisinger Denkmäler (10th cty. Slovene) have several occurrences of
>> iesem. The vowel in Slov. sem (which is a schwa), SbCr. sam and
>> Bulg. sUm is the regular propvowel which appears when clusters move
>> to final position by loss of a final reduced vowel (as in the name
>> Peter, Petar from PetrU). The Macedonian -u- in sum (sic) may show
>> secondary influence from thematic -u (OCS -oN).

I don't see how. There is no reflection of *-oN in Macedonian - all verbs
have -am and in *oN yields -a- (*roNka > raka) in Macedonian anyway. I
would attribute -u- to the influence of the following -m.

Mate