Re: [tied] Re: Catunari

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>
>> Now, Piotr you said just "relfex of -is^c^e" is in South Slavic
>> "-is^te". Ever made up your mind why there was the change of
>> "is^c^e" to " - is^te" in Sout Slavic? How you will explain that?
>
> Why does any sound change take place? I have little to explain here.
> PSl. *s^c^ derives from *stj or from palatalised *sk (before *j or a
> front vowel). The pronunciation /s^c^/ is retained in East and West
> Slavic, but it evolved into /s^t/ almost everywhere in South Slavic.
> This happened not only in the suffix *-is^c^e -- all occurrences of
> *s^c^ were affected. The change must be rather old: we find it already
> in Old Church Slavic.
>
> Piotr

Do you have soemthing against Latin pescis > Rom. peSte? If not, then it
is to assume South Slavic modified the "is^c^e" after the way to speak
of the people they mixed with, thus since the inhabitants upon the Slavs
came used "-s^te" for "-sce", it appears explainable trhough their way
to speak the change in South Slavic. Thus, this is way this "reflex" is
just in South Slavic to find.

Alex