On 04-12-03 12:31, g wrote:
> BTW, any Slavic modern idiom with the variant <sreda>?
Yes, in those South Slavic dialects in which *e^ > e (in SSl. the result
of *er metathesis is was *re^, which is why Bulgarian, for instance, has
<srjada>). Polish <s'roda> is from Lekhitic *sreda with "back umlaut"
(e-retraction before a coronal consonant followed by a non-front vowel).
Piotr