Re: Balto-Slavic -RHj-?

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 35812
Date: 2005-01-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<s.tarasovas@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "willemvermeer" <wrvermeer@...>
> wrote:
>
> > I would like to draw attention to the view sketched by Kortlandt
in
> > Baltistica 21/2, 1985, p. 113-114. It is his contention that the
> > acute tone ultimately reflects the regular acute of the -s-
aorist,
> > e.g. *girH-s- > *gír-s-. I don't know what to think of this idea,
> > which as far as I know has remained unnoticed.
> >
>
> Thank you, this makes sense (at least at first glance).

On the other hand, what about <kìlti>, praet. <kìlo>? Is the rule as
simple as "the preterites with -ý- eventually continue s-aorists
while the ones with -ì- eventually continue something else"? :)

Sergei