Re: [tied] How to prepare **udon soup (was: PIE rhotacism)

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal [mailto:mcv@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:49 AM
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tied] How to prepare **udon soup (was: PIE rhotacism)

If you have /a/ and /a:/, the tendency is for one to front, and the
other to back.  Cf. Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Hungarian, etc. etc.

 Just a boring passing note (need not reply). 'Baltic' is too a wide term. What your statement is applicable to is roughly 2/3 of the Lithuanian dialects (including those underlying Standard Lithuanian). Latvian and the East Auks^taic^iu, dialects retained a ~ a: quantitative opposition. A number of the Samogitionas dialects have o ~ uo in place of *a ~ *a: in many positions. Old Prussian is a bit unclear.

 

Sergei