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

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~)


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