Re: [tied] Some lengthened vowel Slavic verbs

--- Mate Kapovic <mkapovic@...> wrote:

> Miguel said:
>
> <*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...

Since words from o-o have different tones than words
from e-o the tones of o and e must have been different
in PIE. The tones are not changed when the vowel is
changed next to h1, etc., or k, g, etc.

o = ó

e = è

e > a next to g in *gal@...




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