Re: Russ. pilá

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

> But we still have acute, eg., in the infinitives: *píti, *býti,
> *z^íti etc. Of course, *l is a sonorant and *t is not, so the
> vocalization rules might depend on that. Is that what you mean?

On a second thought, this is not a problem, if the circumflex is not
a result of the contraction, but rather a metatony by Meillet's law
(infinitive stands out of the paradigm, so Meillet's law doesn't
operate on it).

Sergei