From: mkapovic@...
Message: 38067
Date: 2005-05-25
> On Tue, 24 May 2005 07:35:26 +0000, pieleweBut that merger should still be earlier than *aw > *o: which later became
> <wrvermeer@...> wrote:
>
>>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,
>>
>>> george knysh had asked:
>>
>>> > *****GK: Does the *a change to "ja" or "ya" in all
>>> > Slavic languages or only some?*****
>>>
>>
>>> Then Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>This is, of course, correct, but there are two minor but
>>complications:
>>
>>
>>(1) Czech and Slovak have prothetic v- in the word meaning 'egg':
>>vejce (Gpl vaji:c), vajce.
>
> It's risky to generalize from a single example, but that
> would seem to indicate that the merger of *a: and *o: in
> Slavic is a relatively recent phenomenon.