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I don't see the need to theorize endingless locatives in Etruscan based on a sole example.
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Instead we either find the word in the endingless accusative direct object of the verb or as luθti "in an egg".
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I don't see the need to theorize endingless locatives in Etruscan based on a sole example.
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Inanimate stems must have been endingless from the beginning while animate stems would have consistently terminated in *-sa by late Mid IE PIE *-s.
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Whereas, there are no locatives that are completely endingless as you suggested by identifying luθ as a locative, since an endingless noun is of the default nomino-accusative case that of the subject or direct object.
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Whereas, there are no locatives that are completely endingless as you suggested by identifying luθ as a locative
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Whereas, an equivalent inanimate MIE nominative would be of the form *CVCCa that is, endingless in MIE which would reduce to *CVCCᵊ and then finally *CVCC after Syncope.
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I still intend, BTW, to look into the possibility of somehow conciling the medial voicing hypothesis with endingless wordforms.
A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may lie with Slavic 2008
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Instead we either find the word in the endingless accusative direct object of the verb or as luθti "in an egg".
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My take on this "extended" genitive case, using my previously mentioned chronology as guide, is that it probably developed during the middle of the Late IE period by simply agglutinating an endingless locative *ya signifying 'to which' to the original genitive in *-s.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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