Re: bhosos

Hello Piotr,

Maybe you could help me again, because even with all these endings, I don't see a way to obtain a long o: in

Germanic bo:smaz (> English bosom) < PIE bHo:s-mo-

The single way that I have imagined is from:

PIE bHos-smo- > PIE bHo:s-mo ...

But could this -ss- > -s- to lead to a long vowel? o: in this case?

Thanks again,
Marius

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >
> > On 2009-03-25 13:08, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> >
> > > Could somebody help me with the flexion on this word?
> > >
> > > nom. sg.
> > > gen. sg.
> > > acc. sg.
> > > nom. pl.
> > > gen. pl.
> > > acc. pl.
> >
> > Marius, *bHosó- (the oxytone accent indicated by Germanic *Baza-) is an
> > adjective, so the inflectons depend on the gender. It's declined just
> > like any other thematic adjective:
> >
> > m. *-os, *-osjo, *-om; *-õ:s (= *-o-es), *-õ:m (= *-o-o:m), *-o(:)ns
> > n. *-om, *-osjo, *-om; *-ah2, *-õ:m, *-ah2
> > f. *-ah2, *-ah2s, *-a:m (= *-ah2-m); *-ah2as (= *ah2-es), *-ah2o:m,
> > *-a:ns (= *-ah2-ns)
> >
> > _if_ the feminine forms count as PIE; note the loss of *h2 before final
> > nasals already in the protolanguage.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
>
> Thanks, Piotr.
>