Re: [tied] Re: bg. nvEsta

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:47:21 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

>I am not specialist in Slavic languages, even I know some of them in
>high level, at most as my mother tongue, cause I have finished my
>postdiplomic studies in Croatian. As far as I know, jat is just a
>dialect characteristic. I never read nor hear any Serbian to say or
>to write nevjesta. So we have ekavski forms (Serbian), jekavski
>(Coatian).

The jekavski form is nevjesta (ekavski nevesta). Czech neve^sta (with
/je/ not /e/) and Polish niewiasta (with /ja/ before hard dental)
confirm this, although it really doesn't need to be confirmed in view
of OCS (and Russian) neve^sta, where the jat' is plainly attested in
the spelling.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...