Sorry for the clumsy wording. It was the
Second Palatalisation that wasn't carried out consistently. What I mean is that
Old Russian included a dialectal substrate with "failed" Second Palatalisation
(no c [ts] < *k before e^ or secondary i, etc.), cf. Sergei's description of
Krivichian on this list. Russian has generalised non-alternating velars -- a
state of affairs originally characteristic of "non-standard" northern dialects.
Literary Old Russian had <-ka> : <-ce^> (an alternation backed up by
Church Slavic influence), though sporadic occurrences of levelled-out velars in
the Dat./Loc.sg. of a-stems (<-ka> : <-ke^>) can be found in
very early texts.
Piotr
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Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Ingvar and Ivar
Russian eliminated this type of alternation
[resulting from the "Second Palatalisation" of velars] (or maybe didn't carry it
out consistently) ...