Re: [tied] Dybo's law

From: tgpedersen
Message: 39670
Date: 2005-08-19

> >>
> >> The -N was added comparatively recently. It is absent from
> >> PIE (*-o:) and Baltic (Lith. -ù < *-uó < *-o:), and it can't
> >> have been present in Proto-Slavic, because *-o:N would have
> >> given *-U (raising to u: before N gives *-u:N ; shortening
> >> of long diphthongs gives *-uN ; denasalization of high
> >> vowels gives *-u ; *-u gives -U). The -N must have been
> >> added at least after the raising of back vowels before -N.
> >>
> >
> >How would your proposed -mW (or -mu?) have done?
>
> That was proposed for pre-PIE, not for post-PSlavic.



How about this for 1st sg.

pre-PIE *-o-mu or *-o-m.nu
->
Proto-BS *-o-mu or *-o-m.nu (other branches *-o:)
->
Proto-Slavic *-omu or *-o-m.nu (Proto-Baltic *-o:)
->
post-Proto-Slavic *-oN (Proto-Baltic *-o:)


Would that work?



Torsten