From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 24388
Date: 2003-07-09
>BTW, what, IMO, is really irregular about the Balto-Slavic reflexes ofDoes Leskien's law work on monosyllabic words?
>*h1eg^(om) are those on the Baltic side. The comparative evidence of all
>the (including archaic and dialectal) material points to *es' < *ez'
>with _short_ *e, different from the expected *é: (thus one would expect
>Lithuanian <e:~s^> -- with monosyllabic circumflex -- rather than
>attested (East Lithuanian) <ès^> (and the dialectal vacillation between
>a- and e- would also point to an original short *e).