Re: [tied] i-verbs in Baltic and Slavic

On Sri, svibanj 24, 2006 10:40 am, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>> Are there any traces whatsoever of Winter's law in Albanian?
>> The other day I discovered a major error in my thinking
>> about the Balto-Slavic merger of /a/ and /o/, which I had
>> assumed to be Proto-Balto-Slavic or even pre-Balto-Slavic,
>> possibly Proto-Balto-Slavo-Albano-Indo-Irano-Germanic :-)
>
> Isn't it trivial enough to be disqualified as evidence of relatedness?

I would certainly not put Indo-Iranian to this supposed *o > *a group.
There, *e > *a also, which makes this quite a different change most
probably.

Mate