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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>
> So why *o-stems N.pl. -ai~ doesn't show the Saussure's effect in

the

> non-mobile paradigm (so~dai, not +sodai~). Or has the reflex of *-

oy

> acquired acute in the mobile paradigm only?

The ending -ai~ cannot reflect IE *-oy directly. The reflex of that
is the acute -ì, -íe-. I have guessed at a restoration of the stem
as -a- + -i(e), but I cannot be sure. There is also the possibility
that /-ai/ is regular after /j/, i.e. medìniai 'wooden' would show
the regular treatment.

Jens