Re: [tied] az+

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:piotr.gasiorowski@...]

> > According to the
> > latest A. Rosinas' monograph on the history of Baltic pronouns, the
> > aggregate evidence of all the available Baltic material (including
> > archaic texts and dialects) points to Proto-Baltic *ez'
> (rather than
> > *é:z').
>
> Proto-East-Baltic, that is, eh?

I'll re-check in evening, but if I remember correctly he accounts for
the Old Prussian evidence as well.

> Couldn't it be simply an irregular
> reduction of a frequently used grammatical function word (*é:z'aN >
> *é:z' > *ez'), not unlike jaz > ja(:) in Slavic or Old English <ic> >
> Middle English <i>?
>

Why didn't the Proto-Slavs go the same way?

Sergei