Re: [tied] Re: Slavic *sorka (was: Satem and desatemisation (was: A

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:24:03 +0000, Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:

>I suggested that the phonetic realization of pre-Slavic tautosyllabic
>*am, *an was [om], [on], thus East Baltic *um in place of pre-Slavic
>*am (yes, there probably were no *phonemic* /o/ in Slavic that early,
>though Kortlandt, for instance, proposes a bit more convoluted scheme
>than cozy (Late) PIE *o, *a > Baltic-Slavic *a > Late Common Slavic
>(ca. 8 c.) *o you obviously have in mind.)

The Auslaut phenomena also suggest a tendency to back nasal vowels in
Slavic more than in Baltic:

acc.sg. *-om Lith. -aN, Slav. -U
acc.pl. *-a:ms Lith. -as, Slav. -y

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