From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 31840
Date: 2004-04-11
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 2:15 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Slavic neutra ending -o
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
> > I forgot to mention. I would reconstruct Slavic dar7 as an old u-
> stem
> > *deh3rus because of the accentuation in Croatian.
>
> This resembles Sl. *mirU (~ *me^rU) 'peace etc.' ( < *me/oiH-ru-(?) <
> *meiH- 'soft'), which seems to belong to the u-declension and at the
> same time to the mobile paradigm (it's mobile in Standard Russian at
> least).
In Croatian, mir is generally a. p. b nowadays but that is clearly
secondarily, the original a. p. being c. But I don't know if the dialects
which preserve the distinction in verbs (Dubrovnik dialect for instance)
like darovati have the same type of accentuation in mirovati.
Mate