Re: [tied] *pYerkW+

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@> wrote:

> > At 8:04:43 PM on Thursday, May 17, 2007, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> > > the PIE gen sg. should be *bHor-w-ós but this didn't match
> >
> > > OE gen. sg. bearwes
> >
> > From PGmc. *barwasa.

> Thanks Brian: sorry for my English.
>
> *bHor-w-ós- > *barwasa seems regular in this case.
>
> I didn't know that PGerm *wa > OE we

Not in general, but in what became the final syllable. The oldest
form of the Old English genitive singular of Germanic a-stems (= PIE
o-stems) is -æs. This became -es in later Old English.

Richard.