Re: [tied] Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

On Pon, siječanj 22, 2007 6:24 pm, mcarrasquer reče:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapović <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. akmuő.
>>
>> It wouldn't, because *-s was added in Slavic by analogy to other
>> stems. It is not PIE.
>
> OK. In that case, where does akmuő come from?

From *-o:n.

> My explanation (raising of circumflex vowels in final syllable), can
> derive both the Slavic and Baltic forms (not only the n-stems, such
> as akmuő/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.

Everything is ad hoc. Adding an *-s in the nominative sg is hardly an
impossible change. That way, you get to derive -y in kamy in the same way
as -y in A. pl. of o-stems (and, basically, in the same way as -y in the
present participle). It does divorce Slavic from Lithuanian but it's a
trivial analogy, nothing significant.