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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fortuna11111" <fortuna11111@...>
wrote:
> The Iranian reflex (also regular) _happens_ to be
> > similar,
>
> And the similarity in the case of az happens to appear ONLY in
> Bulgarian.
What do you mean exactly? The only unique feature about Standard
Bulgarian _az_ 'I' is its lack of the j-prothesis (the dialects also
have _jáze_, _ja_, _jes_), but this is characteristic of (Standard)
Bulgarian inherited words in general (cf. Bulg. _ágne_ 'lamb' vs.
Mac. _jagne_, SCr. _ja"gne_ etc). Is _that_ what you are inclined to
explain via Iranian influence?
Appendix A.
For your refernce, here's a list of the reflexes of Proto-Slavic *(j)
azU in various Slavic languages:
OCS _azU_
Macedonian _jas_
Serbo-Croatian _jâ_, dial. j"az
Slovenian _jàz_
Czech _já_, Old Czech _jaz_
Slovak _ja_
Upper Sorbian _ja_
Lower Sorbian _ja_
Polabian _jo_, _joz_
Polish _ja_, Old Polish _jaz_
Slovincian _jå'u__
Old Russian (both Standard Kievan and Krivichian) _jazU_, later _ja_
Russian _ja_
Ukrainian _ja_
Belarusian _ja_
Sergei