From: Sean Whalen
Message: 45806
Date: 2006-08-23
> On 2006-08-22 03:01, Joao S. Lopes wrote:The form xV&:N is analogical (as gen. *-ars > *-r.s
>
> > Is there some example of *sH2wen- outside
> Germanic?
>
> Avestan, which often preserves beautiful examples of
> archaic
> declensions, shows a heteroclitic paradigm: huuar&:
> < *s(u)va:r <
> *s(h2)wó:l, gen. xV&:Ng < *svans < *s(h2)wén-s
> (originally the
> proterokinetic genitive of *sáh2wl.).