Re: [tied] Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:10:48 +0100 (CET), Mate Kapović
<mkapovic@...> wrote:

>On Sub, siječanj 27, 2007 11:59 am, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal reče:
>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:34:33 +0100 (CET), Mate Kapović
>> <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sri, siječanj 24, 2007 12:16 am, mcarrasquer reče:
>>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mcarrasquer" <miguelc@...> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> matí > mát'
>>>>
>>>> Oops, I meant dUtjí > dóc^'.
>>>
>>>How do you know that the accent was on the final syllable? Croat. kći^ <
>>>*d7``kti points to the first syllable being stressed.
>>
>> I assumed that as a mobile feminine, it would be accented
>> like the mobile feminines in -í, -ý and -á. A quick look in
>> Zaliznjak doesn't confirm nor deny that.
>
>You would expect that in comparison to Lithuanian, but in reality you get
>*d7``kti, like *sy^n7 and not *sy:n'7 because of Lith. su:nu`s

su:nu`s is a special case. We would expect sú:nus (Hirt's
law) in Lithuanian (and if I'm not mistaken such a form is
attested in OLith.).

>, *ko``st6
>and not *kost'6 (Lith. -i`s) etc.
>I do, however, believe that *d7``kti stands for older *d7kt'i but that was
>perhaps pre-proto-Slavic levelling.

But levelling to what? Mobile feminines ending in a full
vowel keep final stress in the N. sg. (nogá, lod(Ij)í,
svekrý). Only the feminine i-stems lose final stress (c.q.
merge with the accusative). Unless the levelling was somehow
with ma"ti, the only other r-stem in the language.

BTW, what would *dUtjí have given in Croatian?


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