From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 16087
Date: 2002-10-08
--- In cybalist@..., Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen <jer@...> wrote:
[MCV]>> On a related matter: is the final syllable of Ipl. -mìs
historically
>> acute (i.e.
>> -mí:s > -mìs by Leskien's law, with long vowel as in Slavic), or
is it
>> historically short
[JER]> I see no way of knowing.
Is there really a reason to be agnostic? North High Lithuanian
(contrasting /-e./ < *-i and /-i/ < *-í: in auslaut) -mis points to a
long vowel.
Sergei