34 Phonology [§ 87 together, assembly = Skr. gátim, Gr. β-ίσι?, prim, form *gmtím, a going; cp. also the Lat. endings in partim, sitim, £c. Ace. sing. Goth, sunu, so» = Skr. sūnám, cp. the endings in Gr. ηδύ?, sweet; Lat. fructum, fruit; ace. sing. Goth. fōtu, foot, cp. Lat. peđem, Gr. πόδα (§ 53). But the -un from Indg. vocalic -m disappeared in words of more than two syllables, as ace. sing, guman from *5omanun -= Lat. hominem, man ; brōþar from *l5rðþerun, brother, cp. Lat. frātrem. In Gothic sibun, seven, and taíhun, ten, for older *sibu, *taíhu, the final -n was re-introduced through the influence of the inflected forms (§ 247). NOTE.—The oldest Norse runic inscriptions still retained these final vowels, as ace. sing, staina beside Goth, stain, stone; ace. sing. neut. horna beside Goth, haúrn, horn; nom. sing. gastiR beside Goth, gasts, guest, stranger. On the other hand, final -n merely became reduced after long vowels in prim. Germanic, and only disappeared in the course of the individual Germanic languages; the process being that the long oral vowels became nasalized and then at a later stage became oral again (cp. § 59 note). After the disappearance of the nasal element, the long vowel remained in Gothic when it originally had the ' slurred * (circumflex) accent, but became shortened when it originally had the ' broken' (acute) accent, as gen. pi. đagē, of days; gastē, of guests; hananē, of cocks; haírt-anē, of hearts; baúrgē, of cities; the -ē of which corresponds to a prim. Germanic ·εεη, Indg. -em, but this ending only occurs in Gothic and has never been satisfactorily explained; the ending in the other Germanic and Indo-Germanic languages presupposes -ðm which regularly appears as -ō in the Gothic gen. pi. gibō, of gifts; bandjō, of bands; tuggōnō, of tongues; manageinō, of multitudes, cp. Gr. θεώ»·, of gods; but ace. sing, giba from *get)ōn, Indg. -am, cp. Gr. χωράν, land, and ace. fem. þō, the = Skr