Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

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

>
> Stang: Slavonic Accentuation
> "
> b. Recessive stress.
> The most clearly established proto-Slavonic example of this type is
> the word mogo,, as well as verbs with a semi-vowel in the root-

syllable.

> Russ. S.-Cr. Slov. Bulg. Czech Slovincian
> mogú mògu mó,rem móga mohu mùoga,
> možešI m`òže:š mó,reš móžešI mu:žeš móu,žeš
> (dial. mӞešI etc.)
> móžet m`òže: mó,re móže mu:že móu,žä
> móžem m`òže:mo mó,remo móžeme mu:ž^eme móu,žemä
> móžete m`òže:te mó,rete móžete mu:z^ete móu,žecä
> mógut m`ògu: mó,rejo mógatU mohou mùogou,
> The proto-Slavonic paradigm appears fairly easy to reconstruct. We
> must assume a conjugation on the following pattern: *mogò,, *mòžeši,
> *mòžetI, *mòžemU, *mòžete, *mògo,tI, *mòžeta, *mòžete. Agreement
> between Russian and Serbo-Croatian on this point is complete and
> decisive. In Czech the opposition mohu : mu:žeš corresponds to the
> opposition in Russian mogú: Russ. dial. mӞešI , Serbo-Croatian

mògu

> : m`òže:š.
> "
> Stang assigns brat' to the same class (e/o-verbs) in "Das slavische
> und baltische Verbum".

"e/o-verbs" is not an accent class. The verb <bIrati> is in accent
class "c".

> It seems he doesn't agree with you on assigning
> original root stress as you do (apart from bereté) to this class.
> What is your source for Old Russian bèru?

You seem to have Stang at hand. The answer is probably there. Check
under "c. mobile stress".