[tied] Re: NEuropean IE for apple

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> Petusek wrote:
>
> > The prothetic v- is a strange phenomenon, indeed. It's still

very

> > productive in Central Bohemia (the area of Prague), so we have

the word

> > "okno", "oko" in the literary Czech and in Moravian dialects,

wherease

> > "vokno", "voko" in Bohemian dialects. Note that the prothetic v-

accurs

> > mainly (if not only) befor o-.
>
> Many rural dialects in Poland insert a prothetic [w] of post-

Common

> Slavic origin (therefore not [v]) before any initial /o/: [woko],
> [wokno], which only goes to show that filling an empty onset with

a prop

> glide is a natural thing to do. Polish normally leaves old *u from

*au,

> *ou alone (<ucho> 'ear', <ul> 'beehive', etc.), and contrasts,

say,

> <l/óz.ko> 'bed' with <uszko> 'ear (dimin.)' as /wus^ko/

vs. /us^ko/ (the

> latter usually with an initial glottal stop), but Old Polish

hesitated

> between <uj> and <wuj> /vuj/ 'uncle' (with old prothesis) and now

we

> only have the latter form.
>

Jysk has o: > uó > wo, 'Ole' (name) > 'Wolle'
which shows you can get all the way without using a term such
as 'prop glide'.



cf Russian vosem, SrbCrt osam "eight".


Torsten