Re: [tied] Some lengthened vowel Slavic verbs

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:32:58 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer
<mcv@...> wrote:

>[*] The Slavic infinitives (bor"ti, kol"ti, mel"ti) are
>non-probative, as all infinitives with an acute root have
>retracted the accent in Slavic, by the "ja"blUko law" (this
>excludes a small group of verbs in *-erH- and *-eNH- with a
>mobile zero-grade present where the acute intonation had
>already been lost in Balto-Slavic, e.g. Slav. z^ertí
>z^I``roN, Latv. dzer^t (*gWerh3-), Slav. pertí pI``roN,
>Latv. sper^t (*(s)perH-), Slav. peNtí pI``noN, Latv. pît
>(*penH-), Slav. teNtí tI``noN, Latv. tît (*temH-)).

The loss of the acute here is of course Slavic, sorry about
that.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...