Re: [tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Moretti [mailto:marcomoretti69@...]
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:36 AM

> Molis in Lithuanian has a long vowel -o-, if I'm not wrong, in
> Lithuanian a vowel /o/ is always long.

Except in new borrowings and "international" words, where a newly coined
marginal phoneme (non-tense) /O/ (vs. native tense (historically, also in
some dialects, long) /o/)comes out.

Sergei