[tied] Re: sum

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:

> >> 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.
>

If it's not directly from pre-proto-Slavic *sumi?
Strange that the outcome of the thematic vowel in that position
seems to be -u-, not -o- in Latin (sum, sumus, sunt, -unt, nominal
-us.

How is


volo:
vi:s
vult

volumus
vultis
volunt


to be analysed?


Torsten