On 2006-09-04 09:00, tgpedersen wrote:
> Nono. Here's the original process: ChSl. mogU moz^e moz^e mogomU
> moz^ete mogõ
What has this got to do with the *-je/o- suffix in present stems or with
semithematic conjugations? The above forms are those of the asigmatic
aorist, which in this particular case is fully thematic. What I meant
was that in the present tense the thematic vowel became *e also in some
forms with original *o, like 1pl. *-emU (perhaps metathetically *-e-mos
< *o-mes), cf. also *nosimU (not **nos^omU) in the i-conjugation.
>> There are accentual differences between *-ih- (or anything that
>> behaves like inherited *-ih-, like the vowel of the infinitive) and
>> vowels resulting from such contractions.
>
> Explain.
>
An iterative like *nositI had *i from circumflexed (superlong) *í~
resulting from the contraction of *-éje-. Like other non-acute stresses
in medial syllables, it was eliminated and the outcome of the Slavic
accentual rules in this case is 3sg. *nòsitI, with initial stress. By
contrast, the *i of the infinitive *nositi has fixed stress on the
medial syllable (*nosi"ti), reflecting an acuted *í: (such as resulted
from laryngeal lengthening rather than contraction, cf. Lith -ýti),
which drew the stress from the originally accented infinitive suffix
(*-i:-téi).
Piotr