Re: [tied] Re: Russian v(o), s(o) & k(o) (was: IE Thematic Vowel Ru

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:40:43 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>Thank you for the clear explanation. I suppose this means that 'mne'
>and 'mnoy' once contained a jer (between m and n), whereas 'toboy'
>and 'tebye' had a full vowel. The next question is how that jer
>arose; "me" has full vowel also in the paradigm: 'menya'. Was there
>an alternation in the Proto-Slavic paradigm of "me" between jer and
>full vowel?

Yes.

acc/gen. mene
dat/loc. mInê
ins. mUnojoN

as opposed to:

acc/gen. tebe, sebe
dat/loc. tebê, sebê
ins. tobojoN, sobojoN


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