Sorry for the confusing wording. I didn't
mean Slavic *U --> *u (there is no such process) but the innovated full grade
(*dHeus-/*dHous-) that arose already in dialectal IE, based on *dHus- (the
samprasa:ran.a nil grade of *dHwes-). I wrote "new" meaning "secondary", not
"recent".
The Slavic lengthened (rather than full)
grade *U (< *u) --> *y (< *u:) can be seen in *dyxati/*dys^ati
'breathe/pant' (iterative, imperfective) -- but I needn't tell you
that.
I wrote *dus^ja with a didactic intention
-- to make it clear that it's historically a *-ja- noun. Of course the
historical development was (*dHous- + ja: >) *dauxja: > *dus^(j)a. The
glide must have been absorbed by the palatalised consonant by the time the
individual Slavic languages emerged, and if there was any original phonetic
difference between reflexes of *-xj- and *-sj-, it had been lost by then. I
agree that *dus^a is the preferable transcription for late common
Slavic.
Piotr
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Day and dies, deus and theos
--- In cybalist@......, "Piotr
Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@......>
wrote:
>*dUx-U 'breath', and with a new full grade in *duxU 'spirit,
ghost',
>*dus^ja 'soul'.
>
> Piotr
I've heard of
Slavic new full grade like *U>*y, but *U>*u is
something new for me.
Did you mean PRE-Slavic processes? Again, what
do you mean by -s^j- in
*dus^ja? -j- is superfluous, there were no
unpalatalized s^ in Proto-Slavic.
Or maybe you treat *s^<*sj and
*s^<*x{e,i,Ir,e,} as s1 'more
palatalized, thus designated as s^j'
and s2 as 'less palatalized, thus
designated as
s^'?
Sergei