Re: [tied] Examples of ablaut in Russian?

28-04-2004 01:51, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> 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

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> 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).

Actually, a third example of e/zero may be lurking here ;-)

Piotr