Re: [tied] Slavic endings

On 2006-08-14 03:28, Andrew Jarrette wrote:

> Robert Beekes suggests that the 1 pl. ending might have been -mom in
> some languages, rather than *-mos (alongside *-mem (Greek -men) and
> *-mes). This would then be another instance of *-om becoming -U,
> rather than *-os.

But there is no comparative support for *-mom (or *-mem, for that
matter, as the prototype of the Greek ending may have been *-men,
matching Hitt. -weni). To put it bluntly, *-mom has been proposed ad hoc
_only_ to account for Slavic *-mU, while *-mos has at least Latin -mus
to lean on.

Piotr