Re: The origin of *ek^wos and *o:k^u-... A mystery solved

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> Sorry, I don't know enough about (Balto-)Slavic accentology to opine
> on the acute. Although jastre,bI is given by Pokorny as a

possibility

> under *o:k^u-, I got the notion from a p.c. from Alexis Manaster-

Ramer

> (he asked me what I could find on his theory that Slav. jasnU

"clear"

> < *o:k^u/*o:k^r-/*o:k^n-).

Slavic *jasnU indeed doesn't have a plausible (or acceptable)
etymology, but explanation from < *o:k^u/*o:k^r-/*o:k^n- has its
problems. First, this obtrusive acute stress again (Serbo-Chroatian
ja"san (m), ja"sna (f)). Second, it's hard to separate the Slavic
lexeme from Lith. a'is^kus 'clear' (in dialects also e'is^kus,
y's^kus) - so we probably have something like *ja'snU < *(j)e^'snU <
*a:i'S-n- < ?

Sergei