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Re: NATLANG: Russkii morphology (was: "Each Other")

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Friday, January 23, 2004, 16:42
E fésto Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>:
>> <<I know that -u is the 1st person singular suffix (from PIE -o:).>> > > Well, it is quite unclear where the Slavic *-o~ comes from. I have seen > hypotheses like *-om, with syllabic _m_, which yiels -*omm > *-o~m > through emergence of nasal vowels and then > *-o~ via loss of final > consonants.
Sihler puts it as from -oH2, with the -m from the secondary endings added on, in the same manner as Indo-Iranian [and ObConlang: Kirumb, also] added primary -mi to it. This -o:-m > -o~ is supposed to be parallel to the eH2-stem accusative -a:m > -o~ (i.e. ženo~) *Muke! -- http://frath.net/ E jer savne zarjé mas ne http://kohath.livejournal.com/ Se imné koone'f metha http://kohath.deviantart.com/ Brissve mé kolé adâ.

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