From: Mate Kapović
Message: 47149
Date: 2007-01-28
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:14:00 +0100 (CET), Mate KapovićSame as Croatian.
> <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
>>On Ned, siječanj 28, 2007 4:00 pm, mandicdavid reče:
>>> --- 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 kći is an i-stem in Croatian).
>>
>>Anyway, it makes no sense discussing the question "levelling to what"?
>> The
>>fact is that we have initial accent there.
>
> We have it in Croatian, perhaps in all of South Slavic. I'm
> not competent enough in Slovenian to know what the source of
> hc^i^,
> hc^E^re might be.Accent by analogy to do hče^re etc. instead of the expected *hčere.^.
> Hock's "Flexionsakzent imJer-dropping caused lengthening...
> mittelbulgarischen Evangelie 1139 (NBKM)" states that MBulg.
> dU's^ti has joined a.p. a "eventuell unter dem Einfluss von
> mati". I don't think OCz. dci, dcer^e or Svk. dcéra,
> Pol.If dočí in Russian is real, it is probably archaic.
> cora throw much light on the accentuation in Common Slavic
> or Old Russian either, but I may be wrong. Vasmer's
> etymological dictionary of Russian does however mention a
> "s.-v.-r" (NW Russian?) form dóc^í (presumably dóc^i or
> doc^í).