Re: [tied] Re: Slavic *sorka (was: Satem and desatemisation (was: A

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 30490
Date: 2004-02-02

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:piotr.gasiorowski@...]
> > That
> > would explain /u/ we find in Lith. <stum~bras> and Latv.
> > <stumbrs> (if
> > borrowed from pre-Slavic *3'ambra- [3'ombra-]). Pre-Slavic [o] was
> > rendered by East Baltic /u/.
>
> I think this must be right. Your suggestion is the only reasonable
> explanation of the form of <stumbras> that I've ever seen.

Thank you. Of course at least one more corroborative example of pre-Slavic
tautosyllabic *am, *an --> (East) Baltic /um/, /un/ is needed. Probably I'll
manage to come up with one later.

Sergei