Re: Lithuanian diphthongs

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 67718
Date: 2011-06-10

W dniu 2011-06-09 22:35, stlatos pisze:

> I know oi>ai, it's ai>ie that has no expl.

It's actually a pretty simple story. In East Baltic, _stressed_ *ai (<
*ai, *oi) and *ei fell together as *e.: (a mid-high monophthong), which
was subsequently diphthongised to /ie/ independently in Auks^taitian
Lithuanian and in Latvian.

Piotr