From: Brian M. Scott Message: 65855 Date: 2010-02-14
At 4:47:05 AM on Sunday, February 14, 2010, Torsten wrote:
> BTW, why Germanic would drop *-s from *-as in the nom.sg.
> of the s-stems, but not in the nom.sg. of the a-stems
> puzzles me. But it did.
Ringe doesn't think so, though he notes that owing to
remodelling in all of the daughters, the PGmc. nom. sing.
isn't recoverable. For instance, he conjectures a nom.-acc.
sing. *segaz.