Re: [tied] PIE prek'- ; prok' ; prk'- 'to ask' -- a self-correction

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:24:28 +0000, Sergejus Tarasovas
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>> [mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Miguel Carrasquer
>
>> Why *be^lãgo? I've forgotten.
>
>I don't remember the details either. Something do to with the fact that
>contractions of 'V(j)V type (ictus on the first syllable) usually yield
>a long falling vowel in Late Common Slavic (*po``jasU > pâs(U) etc.).

I had simply forgotten that bêlU is a.p. b.

Still, the fact that the accent is retracted when there is
no contraction at all (Ru. bélaja, béloe) suggests to me
that this may have little to do with long falling vowels.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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