Re: [tied] i-verbs in Baltic and Slavic

On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:31:53 +0200 (CEST), Mate Kapović
<mkapovic@...> wrote:

>
>The classical examples are Lith. núogas but obuoly~s.

There are also a few counterexamples: stógas "roof"
(*stog-), rógas "grave" (*rog-), blodé:ti "talk
nonsense"(*bhlog-). This might suggest that there was an
overlap between Winter's law and the a/o-merger.

>I think that *o > *a must be very old (cf. also Germanic *o > *a), but
>that Winter's Law is even older, thus very early. Since Winter's Law must
>operated between *cH > *C as well, I would say that that makes it a pretty
>old development. Of course, one cannot be sure.
>However, I think Kortlandt believes *o > *a to be a late change, carried
>out independently in Baltic and Slavic. I find that hard to believe.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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