[tied] Re: Mi- and hi-conjugation in Germanic

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

>
> Sorry I wasn't paying attention. You mean "Stang" as in
> "weak yers are unstressable". Doesn't work. It's
> (j)a"blUko with old acute (Cz. jablko, and I guess ja``buka
> in Shtok.), and the Gpl. isn't Ru. *jablók.

Neither was I it seems. I made an error in sheer maths: If the
retraction rule works, *a:blúka becomes *á:bluka, whence ja"blUko
without problems. Old acute is fine, so is Slavic initial accent.

Jens