Gk gen plural

[anthony.appleyard@umist.ac.uk]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:55:01 -0000, petegray <petegray at btinternet.com>
wrote:
>Does anyone happen to know if there is any actual evidence for the genitive
>plural ending -a:so:m in Greek, rather than the normal -a:o:n and its
>derivatives? ...
> ...Can't the attested forms be derived (with the help of paradigmatic
> analogy) from an original -ah2-om?  Mycenaean seems to show no
> sign of the -s-.

Mycenean Greek's spelling system is a syllabary (Linear B), which as far as
I remember ignores [h] except before [a]. I.e. it has a symbol for HA but
not for HI etc. So, in Mycenean Greek *[asom], the S would not show in
writing even if it was pronounced.