[tied] Re: [j] v. [i]

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 22856
Date: 2003-06-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

>>That fits in nicely with Slavic -i vs. -e^, but unfortunately we
can't check against the Baltic o-stem loc.sg.

We can if we accept the (traditional) view that:

1. adverbs like <namie~> 'at home', dial. <orie~> 'in the air',
<tolì> (< *tolíe) ~ dial. <tolie~> 'far', <artì> ~ dial.
<artie~> 'near', <ankstì> ~ dial. <ankstie~> 'early', dial.
<vakarie~> 'in the evening' etc. directly reflect the old o-stem
L.sg. and

2. o-stem adessive (<mis^kíepi> 'to the forest') is an old locative
postfixed with *pie 'to'.

If <namie~> (et. al.) has a metatonized *-íe (circumflex is unmarked
and usually represents an innovation when interdialectal vacillation
between acute and circumflex is observed), the result is exactly the
opposite to what you would expect.

Sergei