Re: [tied] Re: Decircumflexion, N-raising, H-raising: Slavic soundr

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 32355
Date: 2004-04-28

> From: elmeras2000 [mailto:jer@...]

> Hey, what's curious here? The mobile o-stems have thematic accent in
> Indo-European, so *-óy is inherited. The old ending is that of the
> adjectives gerì, geríe-ji which is acute just like Gk. mikroí.

So why *o-stems N.pl. -ai~ doesn't show the Saussure's effect in the
non-mobile paradigm (so~dai, not +sodai~). Or has the reflex of *-oy
acquired acute in the mobile paradigm only?

Sergei