--- alexandru_mg3 <
alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> PIE *dk^m.tom > Proto-Balto-Slavic s'imta > OCS sUto
> `hundred' etc...???
>
> Where is the nasalisation, in OCS sUto? The expected
> form should be
> *seNto
> So Slavic sUto is not an inherited word
Since *-um > *-uw > *-u > -U in Slavic
(the lack of nasalization is the important
part) it's completely possible that *um >
U in other environments (not before b/p
but before t, apparently).
The only other rule needed (which has
a parallel in *i>*u in some pal. envir-
onments) is im>um/_[*P] or similar. An
earlier similar change is ing>ung as in
Germanic *hringaz vs. OCS kroNgU.
s^imtom
s^umtom
s^umto ana.
sumto
suwto
suto
sUto
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