[tied] Re: Slavic *-je/o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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).

I've never heard of the rule for such a retraction. Hirt's Law is about
retraction to a pre-tonic nucleus flanked by a (non-vocalized)
laryngeal, and here you propose a secondary acute of non-laryngeal
origin, don't you?

Sergei