Re: Slavic endings

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "pielewe" <wrvermeer@...> wrote:

> ... an
> intermediate stage with long mid monophthongs, appr. long [e:] and
> [o:]. This stage, which is phonetically more plausible, is actually
> attested in a number of Slavic loans into Latvian (not Lithuanian!)

How about:

Lith. kruopà (2) < Sl. *kró:pa? (b)
Lith. (Z^em.) puõkas (4) < Sl. *pô:xu (c)

?

Sergei