From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 38023 Date: 2005-05-24
george knysh wrote:
> *****GK: Does the *a change to "ja" or "ya" in all
> Slavic languages or only some?*****
In almost all of them. Prothetic *j is the norm before reflexes of
initial *a- and *e^-, which thus fall together with instances of
_inherited_ *j-. OCS shows variation between forms with and without the
glide, e.g. ablUko ~ jablUko.