Re: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 6129
Date: 2001-02-14

Yes, I'm correcting my own mistake. I attempted to transform the unsyncopated form into "Oleg" rather than start with Helgi. The vowel that underwent shortening must have been either the diphthong ei (the Scandinavian reflex of *ai) or the dialectal e: that developed from it, and the shortening cluster owed its existence to vowel syncope (cf. Icelandic heilagi : helgi). A rather late development. I'd date it ca. 750-800.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Sergejus Tarasovas
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:08 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

But I extracted this /e:/ from your posting, not Joao's one and commented appropriately. If now you add shortening to the chain /ei/>/e:/>/e/, it's OK, but as the chain have become rather long now, would you specify since what time (within century) the form with the short vocalism have existed?

Sergei