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

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

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > > The 1sg. pres. ending -oH2 yielded acute -o: in Lithuanian

(later

> > > short -u). In Slavic, it turned into -a: and was later expanded
> > > with the secondary ending -m (cf. 1sg. aorist pekU < *pekwom,

and

> > > also skr. bhára:mi < *bhero:+mi). The addition of -m probably
> > > followed the change o: > a: in Slavic, because the o: yielded

u: >

> > > y before nasal stops in word-final position: kamy < *ka:mu: <
> > > *ak'mo:n. Also, -a:N# wasn't affected by umlaut (A.sg. zemljoN;
> > > thus also 1.sg. pres. bijoN etc.).
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> Umlaut?

The back vowels were fronted when following a /j/. This is sometimes
called 'umlaut'. The 'a:', on the other hand, escaped that change.

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> > BTW, kámy vs. akmuo reminds me somehow of nom. n-inflection ON

bogi

> > vs. Gothic hana. There must be some common explanation to the
> > variation in those two pairs, and I suspect stress has to do with
> > it.
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> I'm talking nonsense. The stone thing is *-o:N# -> -u:# -> -y#, and
> Schmalstieg's 1sg pres. and oxytone neuter nom/acc is *-óN# ->
> *-óN#/*-ó#.
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> Torsten
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