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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>

Maybe to the feminine i-stems. They had initial stress in all sg. forms
except L and I. Even the endings of the i-stems replaced original r-
stem endings in lots of forms - that must have influenced the a.p. of
the word dUtji (today, the word kæi is an i-stem in Croatian).