Re: Various loose thoughts

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "willemvermeer" <wrvermeer@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> > > 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 the accent was retracted in i-stem ljudImÚ, ljudIxÚ from the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

> A change like ljudÍmU, ljudÍxU > ljúdImU, ljúdIxU is impossible
> because non-final jers are not held to have lost the stress at the
> stage involved and because those particular jers ultimately became
> strong, so reconstructed *ljudÍmU and *ljudÍxU would end up with
> stress on the ending in the attested material, just like *sestr'amU
> *sestr'axU or *voz'omU *voz'e^xU or what have you, leaving R.

ljúdjam

> ljúdjax (and other phenomena) unaccounted for.

I may well be missing something (or even asking a silly question),
but if *ljudImÚ gives *ljúdImU (final jers lose stressability, the
ictus skips middle jer(s)), why do we have Russ. <vorobéj> (<
*vorbIjÍ, a. p. b) rather than +voróbej and Russ. <voronój> (<
*vornUjÍ, *vôrnU being a. p. c) rather than +vorónyj?

Sergei