[tied] Re: Various loose thoughts

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

> I also don't really understand Kortlandt's argument about R.
> détjam, détjax, ljúdjam, ljúdjax. I gather the idea is that
> the accent was retracted in i-stem ljudImÚ, ljudIxÚ from the
> final yer all the way to ljúdImU, ljúdIxU, skipping the
> middle yer, but how does that invalidate the possibility of
> ljudÍmU, ljudÍxU > ljúdImU, ljúdIxU? What am I missing?

I missed that point, too. I consulted Kortlandt's "Slavic accentuation",
p. 15 (which he refers to in his paper in Baltu filolog'ija 2004, p. 27),
but it didn't really help.
Maybe someone from Leiden could tell us?

Thomas