Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

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

>
> On 2007-01-17 23:11, mcarrasquer wrote:
> > Just a thought, before I forget.
> >
> > Could Slavic nogá "foot, leg" and no``gUtI "nail" be split forms

of a

> > common paradigm?
> >
> > We could have:
> > N. *h3nógh(W)-o:t-s,
> > A. *h3nógh(W)-ut-m.
>
> Very interesting. How about extending this analysis to other *-ut-

nouns

> in Balto-Slavic (e.g. *degut- 'tar', cf. Latv. de,guts/de,guots)?

Actually, I wasn't aware of any other ut-nouns other than *olkUtI and
*nogUtI. The Latvian forms look interesting. Also interesting are the
other Baltic variants (degùtas, de,guta) which are o- or a:-stems, as
is also the case with nagà, nãgas, etc.