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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 47090
Date: 2007-01-23

> PIE -o:r/-õ = Lith. vanduõ
> PIE -e:r/-e~ = Lith. dukte.~ and Slavic dUtji with -e~ raised to -i:,
> just like -õ is raised to -u: in kamy, etc.

Some variants of British English have similar sandhi rules for -r,
elided before consonant, pronounced before vowel (and further
generalized into contexts where isn't warranted. eg. drawr-ing "drawing").


Torsten