Re: [tied] Re: Slavic *sUto -> is NOT INHERIT

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 47306
Date: 2007-02-07

On 2007-02-07 00:22, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> Can somebody help me with a hint: where I'm wrong here?
> All the other 3 words indicates the fact that sUto is an exception...

You are not wrong. It _is_ irregular (one would expect *seNto < *sinta
from BSl. *c'imtám). It's usually assumed that *sUto reflects Old
Iranian *satá with a peculiar treatment of unaccented *a (presumably
pronounced as a kind of schwa rather than fully open [a] in the Iranian
prototype).

Piotr