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

> > The 1sg. did not have final -m in PIE, and it can't have had -m in
> > Balto-Slavic because that would have given Slavic -U, not -oN.
>
> I've looked at the tables you provided for Slavic auslauts. They all
> make sense in unstressed syllables. They are too mumbly to be anything
> people would pronounce in a stressed syllable.

Specifically: How can a stressed vowel become a jer? Jers are ghosts
of departed (well, departing) vowels. Vanishing is what *un*stressed
vowels do.

Torsten