From: aquila_grande
Message: 45584
Date: 2006-07-29
>accusative
> Maybe there is a connection
>
> Norwegian ulv (1) - wolf has its ultimate origine in the
> form "wlqwom" (Acc sing) . ( I do not know the intermediates)ultimate
>
> The plural forms of the same word with tune 2 has as their
> source the form "wlqwo:s" (nom plur). The first ending has droppedout leaving tune
> 1. The second ending has not dropped leaving tune 2. Perhaps tune
> differences deciced what ending could drop and what not, or the
> heavier ending that did not drop were associated with some tune
> qualities.
>
> > Long time back I tried to make IE sense of Swedish-Norwegian
> > tone and Danish stød with my limited knowledge until Jens
> > pointed out that stød occur in what is monosyllables in
> > Danish, so therefore can't have a PIE origin. But if stød
> > and rising tone come from original two-morae (syllable)
> > low tone - high tone, then perhaps they are from PIE after
> > all?
> >
> >
> > Torsten
> >
>