Re: [tied] Balto-Slavic accentology

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> I don't know where the length in sly"s^ati comes from. Even
> if laryngeal (which I doubt), applying Hirt's law will only
> get us as far as slys^a"ti (but admittedly sly"s^oN in the
> present). Your suggestion (original barytonesis, maintained
> against Dybo's law by the [acute] length) sounds good to me.
> I'm only worried by the circumflex on Grk. klûthi.

Greek tones are non-distinctive outside of the final syllable. The
could not be a Greek word §klú:thi.

Jens