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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
> I don't follow: dìrbu is dìrbu, not dirbù, so Saussure's law
> doesn't work for former acute *ir' (now ìr).
>
It's a matter of syllabification: dír.bó: (acute), but *gì.rió:
(short stress) (. -- syllable boundary). There are *no* 1 sg. praes.
forms like CV`R-iu in Standard Lithuanian (there are in some dialects
due to later retractions). <ìr> in <dìrbu> is still an acute
diphthongoid in Modern Standard Lithuanian, while <ir> in <giriù> is
a heterosyllabic sequence of a short vowel and and a sonorant.
Sergei