Re: Slavic endings

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

*-man-s > *-mõs etc

BTW if the thematic 1st sg. -o: is not from PIE *-oH,
but from *-om > *-õ:, is the thematic inflection
in any way not derivable from the athematic, with
end-stress?


Torsten