Re: Balto-Slavic -RHj-?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> The
> infinitives are a.p. a, as expected (*gWr.H-téi and
> *tr.h1-téi, with Hirt's law *gWI'rtei, *tI'rtei), but the
> present system again suggests a non-acute root, without
> retraction of the accent in *gWr.H-jó:, *tr.h1-jó:. The
> phenomenon is not merely Slavic, because the Lithuanian
> forms show the same: gìrti vs. giriù and tìrti vs. tiriù.

The Lithuanian forms are irrelevant, since *'girió: (' -- ictus, ó --
acute accent) would inevitably yield giriù by Saussure's law. +gìriu
is just impossible in Standard Lithuanian.

Sergei