RE: [tied] Re: Rom. TāTć (breast) (was: alb. gji (breast) - maybe

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 25293
Date: 2003-08-25

> Of course there's no connection (nor is there an initial <c> in
> Serbo-Croatian sr"ce). As for some minor correction, the Proto-Slavic
> word was *sIrdIce (with progressive palatalisation from *sírd-ika <
> *k^r.d- + *-iko-), with early syncope of the medial syllable.
>
> Piotr

BTW, Proto-Slavic accentuation is *sIr~dIce (circumflex) since the word belongs to the mobile (c) paradigm. Serbo-Croation accent is in that case automatic (contraction of a trisyllabic word) and indecisive.

Sergei