Re: [tied] Re: Final -oi/-ai in Balto-Slavic

--- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer
> Vidal
> <miguelc@...> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 18:41:58 -0800 (PST), Sean
> Whalen
> > <stlatos@...> wrote:

> > >> Because the merger a/o is Balto-Slavic.
> > >
> > > I don't think so. If you believe it how do you
> > >explain B-s *swopnos > svapnas and sUnU?

> Sl. sUnU is from PIE *sup-n-o- (identical with
> Albanian gjum&)
> On the other hand, Lith s~apnas is from PIE
> *sop-n-o-

I think it's clear that the B-S words are
both from the same proto-form. That's why
I was using this example; to show that *wo
and *wa had different outcomes in Slavic
so the a-o merger didn't happen in proto-
B-S.

> Could somebody explain why we have both *swop-n-o- &
> *sop-n-o in PIE?

I'm sure all languages have forms from
*swepn.os with e>o between two lab./round
sounds in most and o>u in various environ-
ments in some languages.

The *swopnos I cited was the B-S form
and not PIE. I'd say w>0 between s_o
before o>a in Baltic.





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