Re: [tied] Final -oi/-ai in Balto-Slavic

From: Mate Kapović
Message: 47150
Date: 2007-01-29

On Pon, siječanj 29, 2007 12:33 am, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal reče:

> - the Npl.
> Lithuanian nominal -ai(~), adjectival -ě. The nominal ending
> is perhaps from the stems in *-ijos, which have -iai even in
> the adjectives (from unstressed contracted *-ijaj).
> Adjectival -i` is as expected from PIE *-oj.

Yeah, but this is originally acute, cf. definite -íeji.

> - the personal pronoun datives *moj, *toj, *soj
> Not attested in Lithuanian?

Old Lithuanian has -m(i), -t(i), -s(i) for GDA. usually derived from the
same pre-form as Slavic (whether *moy or *mey) with a possible *-aj > -i
in unstressed position.