[tied] *a- ~ *e in Balto-Slavic (was: Derivations 15 sun)

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:gpiotr@...]

> Or rather to the general instability of the contrast between
> initial *e-
> and *a- (also < *(h3)o-) in Balto-Slavic.
>

...which actually has survived to this day manifesting itself in
interlaguage/dialectal (and -- at least in Lithuanian -- sometimes even
idiolectal) vacillations (a- ~ e- in Baltic and o- ~ (j)e- in Slavic).

Sergei