[tied] Re: Decircumflexion, N-raising, H-raising: Slavic soundrules

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> It is curious that mobile paradigms end-stress the o-stem
> nom.pl. (sakai~). If I'm not mistaken, end-stress should
> belong in the sg. nom./voc./gen. [not the abl. > gen. of the
> o-stems] (what about the instrumental?), and in all the
> plural except nom. and acc.

Hey, what's curious here? The mobile o-stems have thematic accent in
Indo-European, so *-óy is inherited. The old ending is that of the
adjectives gerì, geríe-ji which is acute just like Gk. mikroí.

> How did the pronouns get their -íe?

That's the old form. One may note by the way that it became
circumflex in BSl. monosyllables as seen in tie~ (Slov. tî).

Jens