Re: [tied] a:/o: merger

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 9884
Date: 2001-09-30

*a: and *o: did _not_ merge in Balto-Slavic. They merged in Proto-Slavic and, independently, in _some_ Baltic dialects (Old Prussian). Even standard Lithuanian, in which *a: > o:, keeps it different from *o: > uo.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Daci

The funny thing is that in Albanian, */a:/ [> o] and */o:/ [> e] did
*not* merge, as happened in Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic and Germanic.
Worth noting is also the development [e: >] a: > o: > o, as opposed to
[ou >] au > o: > a: > a.