FYI (pre-IE reconstructions)

[Leo A. Connolly]

Mate KapoviÊ wrote:

> Just a brief note. In the MCV's text on pre-Indo-European there is a claim
> that Hittite ablative -az comes from PIE *-od-s. Considering the Luwian form
> of ablative -ati it can safely be assumed that the protoform of these two is
> *-oti.

> *o > a in both lgs, *t is palatalized to z in Hittite in front of *-i which
> is later omitted. So the *-ods > -az etymology is not correct.

Problem: doesn't PIE 3sg. -ti yield Hittite -zi i.e. [-tsi]?  Why should
-i have dropped in the ablative but not in the verb ending?  Does final
-i *ever* drop in Hittite?  (Just asking on this last matter.)

Leo Connolly