Re: [tied] Slavic adjectives: note on lęto

On Uto, veljača 20, 2007 8:09 pm, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal reče:

> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:04:44 +0100 (CET), Mate Kapović
> <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
>>On Uto, veljača 20, 2007 8:30 am, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal reče:
>>> Just a short unrelated note on the word lęto "summer". This
>>> had been worrying me, because the usual etymology connects
>>> it with Germanic le:T-, which must be barytone (Verner). If
>>> so, lęto would be one of the few originally barytone neuter
>>> which has remained neuter (NA ending -o). Normally,
>>> originally barytone neuters become masculine (*dhwórom >
>>> dvorU), and secondarily barytone neuters can be explained by
>>> an appeal to Hirt's law (or other retractions).
>>
>>Isn't the dvorU-type change for non-acute stems only? Or am I mistaken?
>
> Illich-Svitych gives the probably original barytone neuters
> ty"lU (~ ty"lo), ga"dU, ja"dU, perhaps ly"ko (~ ly"kU). Dybo
> adds gra"dU. The evidence is confused by PIE oxytone neuter
> nouns which were affected by Hirt's law and other retraction
> laws, and which retain -o.

How is that possible? Hirt's Law would then have to operate *after* the
dvorU-type change of gender which would place it well into Balto-Slavic.
Of course, that makes no problems for Baltic...

Mate