Re: [tied] az+

10-07-03 09:20, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

>
> According to the
> latest A. Rosinas' monograph on the history of Baltic pronouns, the
> aggregate evidence of all the available Baltic material (including
> archaic texts and dialects) points to Proto-Baltic *ez' (rather than
> *é:z').

Proto-East-Baltic, that is, eh? Couldn't it be simply an irregular
reduction of a frequently used grammatical function word (*é:z'aN >
*é:z' > *ez'), not unlike jaz > ja(:) in Slavic or Old English <ic> >
Middle English <i>?

Piotr