Re: [tied] Re: Rom. =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=C4=81T=C4=87_=28breast=29_=28was=3

25-08-03 12:26, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

>> 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

That's right. My *sírd-ika refers to the state of affairs before the
operation of Meillet's Law in the barytone forms of mobile paradigms in
early Proto-Slavic. I mentioned the early syncope of the medial syllable
exactly because it explains the SCr accent and didn't wish to imply that
the accent reflected the Winterian acute.

Piotr