Re: [tied] Re: NEuropean IE for apple

On Tue, 24 May 2005 07:35:26 +0000, pielewe
<wrvermeer@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,
>
>> george knysh had asked:
>
>> > *****GK: Does the *a change to "ja" or "ya" in all
>> > Slavic languages or only some?*****
>>
>
>> Then Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
>> In almost all of them. Prothetic *j is the norm before reflexes of
>> initial *a- and *e^-, which thus fall together with instances of
>> _inherited_ *j-. OCS shows variation between forms with and without
>the
>> glide, e.g. ablUko ~ jablUko.
>
>
>This is, of course, correct, but there are two minor but
>complications:
>
>
>(1) Czech and Slovak have prothetic v- in the word meaning 'egg':
>vejce (Gpl vaji:c), vajce.

It's risky to generalize from a single example, but that
would seem to indicate that the merger of *a: and *o: in
Slavic is a relatively recent phenomenon. Three back long
vowels against two short ones in Slavic are also required by
o-stem acc.sg. PBS *-am raised to *-uN > Slav. -U, but
a:-stem acc.sg. PBS *-a:m raised to *-o[:]N > Slav. -oN, and
gen.pl. PBS *-o:m raised to *-u[:]N > Slav. -U.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...