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

From: mandicdavid
Message: 47140
Date: 2007-01-28

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?
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...




It would have yielded **kæi`` (cf. noga``). However, it's an
enclinomenon - 'kæi: