[tied] Re: Yers

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <
piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> Let me spare you the trouble. The sequences *Ul, *Il, *Ur, *Ir

(many

> Slavicists interpret them phonetically as syllabic liquids

coming in two

> flavours, "hard" and palatalised) were metathesised into OCS

lU, lI, rU and

> rI when followed by a consonant. Any /ul/ in a foreign word was

likewise

> metathesised to avoid the formation of a closed syllable. In

other words

> <blUgar-> is simply <bulgar-> forced into conformity with OCS

phonotactics.

>
> Piotr

Piotr,

You are telling me nothing new on the metathese. This is one of
the first things you notice by comparing forms, even without
reading the theory (but this particular part of it I have read). I was
speaking about the old form which could stand behind.

Eva