Re: [tied] Some lengthened vowel Slavic verbs

From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 45260
Date: 2006-07-06

Miguel said:
 
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:13:07 +0200, Mate Kapovic
<mkapovic@... hr> wrote:

>How do you explain possible Hirt's Law in bo´´lto? Shouldn't
it be the same as in <golv'a?

<I'm glad you asked.

<*gal@... may have /a/. I would put Hirt's law before
<Winter's law, and Winter's law still distinguishes between
</a/ and /o/, so Hirt's law may work differently for *oRH vs.
<*arH.

<The rule also doesn't seem to apply to *a and *o from *e
<after *h2 and *h3: Latv. ar^t < *h2ar@3téi and ar^kls <
<*h2ar@3tlóm, aûst < *h2au@... (I don't have any actual
<examples for *h3e-). Whether it applies in the case of
<"unmotivated" /a/ (not in the neighbourhood of *h2, *k, *g,
<*gh) is unclear: dê"verI (*daiHwé:r) and its Baltic cognates
<would seem to suggest it does, but Latv. sal^t (*k^al@-téi)
<suggests it doesn't.
 
Ah PIE *a... I'm sorry, but that's just obscurum per obscurius. I am very reluctant to accept an explanation involving PIE *a...
 
Mate