Re: [tied] Meillet's law

From: Mate Kapović
Message: 47045
Date: 2007-01-22

On Sub, siječanj 20, 2007 12:11 am, mcarrasquer reče:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mandicdavid" <davidmandic@...>
> wrote:

> [The above are the main pillars of my theory about three (not two!)
> original Balto-Slavic accent paradigms. I have just thought of the
> following, but I don't have my books at hand here in Poland, so this
> is tentative:]
>
> acute root vowel: becomes a.p. a in closed syllable (or"d-lo, my"d-
> lo), remains a.p. b [acute elimination!] in open syllable (e.g. vę-
> dró).

This doesn't really fit the material I think. There are tons of examples
of the acute being eliminated with the suffix -*dlo. Check out the list in
OSA 1990 (I think it's there).