On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:02:46 +0200, Christopher Culver
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christopher_culver@...> wrote:
>Is the difference between Russian "gde" (where) and "kuda" (to where) a
>remnant of PIE ablaut? If so, I would assume that Old Church Slavonic had
>other examples of ablaut. Where might I find reading material on this?
The following examples of Ablaut in OCS are from de Bray
"Guide to the Slavonic Languages" (rev. '69), not a bad book
to start with, despite some shortcomings:
I - i - e(^) die mIroN, mrêti
count, read c^ItoN, c^isti
take beroN, bIrati
U - u breathe; spirit dUxnoNti; duxU
e - o flow; course tekoN; tokU
ê - a step, mount; exit lêsti; iz-lazU
o - U call zovoN, zUvati
In the first example, the /ê/ in mrêti is not an Ablaut form
of /I/ or /i/ as de Bray seems to suggest. /Ir/ and /r/ are
both zero grades. The second example shows ablaut *ei ~ *i.
The third example has full-grade /er/ vs. zero-grade /Ir/.
I'll leave the final four as an exercise: can you see which
Ablaut these forms show? (hint: 2 are e-grade/o-grade, and
two are o-grade/zero-grade).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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