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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
> On Pon, sijec^anj 22, 2007 1:38 pm, mcarrasquer rec^e:
> >> [Mate:]
> >> Or, simpler, from PIE *h2ek'mo:ns with a final *-s.
> >
> > There is no PIE *h2ek'mo:ns. Even if there was, it wouldn't
explain
> > Lith. akmuõ.
>
> It wouldn't, because *-s was added in Slavic by analogy to other
> stems. It is not PIE.
OK. In that case, where does akmuõ come from?
My explanation (raising of circumflex vowels in final syllable), can
derive both the Slavic and Baltic forms (not only the n-stems, such
as akmuõ/kamy, but also the r-stems, such as mote~/mati) from a
common PIE source (cf. Skt. ra:ja:, ma:ta:).
The ad-hoc addition of -s in Slavic only can explain kamy, but it
fails to explain dUkti/mati, and divorces the Slavic forms from the
Lithuanian ones.