From: tgpedersen
Message: 46025
Date: 2006-09-11
>Sorry, you're right. I must have been having a minor stroke.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
>
>
> > I don't get it. Why is neut NAsg o-stem -o (< *-om), when
> > msc Asg o-stem is -U (< *-om)?
>
> This has been discussed here pretty often, even, I seem to recall, in
> this very thread. The ending -o is generally regarded as reflecting
> pronominal *-od. This is a very old insight. As soon as one assumes *-
> om yielded anything else than -U, one loses the 1sg secondary thematic
> ending of the preterite, e.g. mogU < -om. That is too high a price to
> pay. As a matter of fact the hypothesis that *-om yielded -U helps
> explain the transition of so many neuter nouns to the masculine gender.
>