Re: [tied] Re: Creole Romance?

01-07-03 14:51, tgpedersen wrote:

>> I think you mean <noga>/<v noge> (Pol. <noga>/<w nodze>). <vode> is
>> the regular unrestructured Russian reflex of *vode^.
>>
> Actually I was thinking of Polish <wodzie>, but come to think of it,
> that palatalisation is Polish only, right?

Right. In the Russian sequence <de> the stop is distinctly palatalised
and typically affricated as well (the orthography doesn't show that
explicitly), but not to the point reached in Polish <dzie>, which has an
"alveopalatal" affricate.

Piotr