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

> -----Original Message-----

> Doesn't really make it less curious. The nom.sg. form is
> unstressed (-as, -ias) even if it, as you say, derives from
> *-ós [exception made for the soft *-ijo stems' -y~s], which
> is also curious.

It's stressed in definite adjectives (geràsis, I can't remember out of hand
an example of an appropriate definite noun in Old Lithuanian), and it's
obvious the ictus was automatically retracted from *-às# (but not the long
contracted -y~s) at some time in Lithuanian (and Latvian / (partly)
Z^emaitian broken tone sometimes helps restore the original place of the
ictus). So *this* one is not a problem (others remain).

Sergei