From: Brian M. Scott Message: 35259 Date: 2004-12-02
At 1:54:24 PM on Thursday, December 2, 2004, alex wrote:
> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>> Hung. szarka is rather obviously a loan from Slavic.
> with "a" from "o"?
As I understand it, the PSl vowel was a low, back vowel,
variously described as weakly rounded and as without
*distinctive* rounding; this would make it very similar to
Hungarian <a>, which I have usually seen transcribed as [A.]
(IPA turned-script-a).