From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 35437
Date: 2004-12-12
>The retraction-with-conditional-metatony rule explains whyYikes. -IcÍ, -IjÍ
>Lith. has -ìka-, -ìja-, -ìnja- for the oxytone suffixes
>*-ikó-, *-ijó-, etc. (Slav. -IkÚ, -IjÍ),
>and how it lost the=======================
>category of oxytonic neuters (de:klá- > de~kla-) and
>oxytonic (mesotonic) verbs (-jé-, -éje-, verbs etc. become
>barytonic [and circumflex]).