[tied] PIE prek'- ; prok' ; prk'- 'to ask' -- a self-correction

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> >*pric^ína
>
> I've used the acute character to denote a possible neo-acute

(rising)

> pitch, but the word seems to have recieved its untepenultimate

ictus as

> a result of Dybo's (rightward) shift, in which case a falling pitch
> contour would probably be expected.
>

But in that case, why hasn't the ictus been thrown back to the first
syllable by Stang's Law? And if this is because of the old acute in
the penultimate syllable, what would be its source? There's no
laryngeal or Winternian media in the vicinity.

As Trubetskoj wrote on some occasion, Slavic accentology is a
completely desperate enterprise...

Sergei