Re: [tied] az+

08-07-03 19:47, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

> 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_

Precisely. Old Polish <jaz> is attested only once (<ale jaz modlil/
jes'm' sie,> 'but I prayed', in the 14th-century Florian Psalter), but
the Old Czech and Old Russian forms are well documented. The variation
<(j)a> ~ <(j)az> must have been a common Slavic phenomenon.

Piotr