Re: [tied] *a- ~ *e in Balto-Slavic

On 04-10-20 12:48, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

>>From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:gpiotr@...]
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>>Or rather to the general instability of the contrast between
>>initial *e-
>>and *a- (also < *(h3)o-) in Balto-Slavic.
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> ...which actually has survived to this day manifesting itself in
> interlaguage/dialectal (and -- at least in Lithuanian -- sometimes even
> idiolectal) vacillations (a- ~ e- in Baltic and o- ~ (j)e- in Slavic).

Cf. Henning Andersen. 1996. _Reconstructing prehistorical dialects:
Initial vowels in Slavic and Baltic_. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Piotr