Re: [tied] Some lengthened vowel Slavic verbs

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From: Miguel Carrasquer

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Subject: Re: [tied] Some lengthened vowel Slavic verbs

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:13:55 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer
<mcv@...> wrote:

>We have:
>
>*g(W)o:g^h-é je- => gó:z-i:-
>*(s)po:r-éje- => pó:r-i:-
>*wo:dhh1-éje- => wó:d-i:-
>
>as opposed to:
>
>*dho:uH-éje- => do:w-í:-
>*tro:uH-éje- => tro:w-í:-
>*ko:nh1-éje- => ko:n-í:-
>
>This now makes perfect sense. In the first set, the
>syllabification is *g(W)o:-g^hé- je-, *(s)po:-ré-je- ,
>*wo:-dh(h1)é -je- with a long rising vowel in the first
>syllable. In the second set, it is *dho:u-Hé-je- ,
>*tro:u-Hé-je- , *ko:n-h1é-je- , with a long falling diphthong
>in the first syllable, and therefore a circumflex (cf. the
>circumflex in *o:u-yóm > o~jé > vâje/jâje). When the
>laryngeal fell away, the semivowel/resonant was pulled to
>the next syllable, but the circumflex accentuation stayed.

Another case of V:RHV is bêlU (a.p. b), from *bhé:lHos,
syllabification bhe:l-Hos, with first syllable long and
falling. After the loss of the laryngeal, the intonation
was maintained (*bé:~-las). The same root also gives an
example of Hirt's law affecting the sequence *oRH: Lith.
báltas, Latv. bal~ts, Slav. bol"to < *bholHtó-.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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