Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > > Doesn't it also give you *mogóN, *móz^esI free of charge, so to
> > > speak (with some tweaking, ie. that *-oN <- *-oH)
> >
> > As I said: "it doesn't work on lengths produced by laryngeals".
> >
> > The law doesn't work on the 1sg. of thematic verbs, as shown by the
> > a.p. c 1sg. (e.g. be``roN).
>
> I'm not familiar enough with Slavic phonology, I'm afraid, and the
> only Slavic language I know a smattering of is Russian, but it seems
> to me that stressed -ú is the typical 1sg ending in that language.

In Russian, older bèru (and 2pl. bereté) have adopted the stress of the
rest of the paradigm (berú, berës^', berëte etc.). Old Russian still
conserved the old accent pattern.