Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2009-02-05 22:33, Andrew Jarrette wrote:
>
> > By the way, I thought that the OHG representative of the IE o-stem
> > plural, i.e. <-a:>, was the regular outcome of PGmc *-ôz < PIE
> > *-ôs,
>
> More likely acc.pl. *-anz > *-a~ > -a(:), used for the nom.pl.

Da. generalized ON acc.pl. arma -> arme, but Sw. ON nom.pl. armar.

> > while OE <-as> and OS <-os> represented the outcome of a PIE
> > *-ôses, which occurs sometimes as Vedic <-a:sas>. In any case
> > I've never heard of any stage of German having auslaut <-s> in
> > the nominative or accusative plural of IE o-stems.
>
> _All_ Germanic strong masculine plurals (except that seen in OHG)
> can be derived from *-o:ziz ~ *-o:siz < *-o:s-es without any
> serious difficulties.

You mean nominative, right? ON still distinguishes nom.pl. -ar and
acc.pl. -a.


Torsten