Re: _ser'ga_<_*ausahriggs

On 2007-12-13 00:50, stlatos wrote:

> I think the only series of changes that explain the oddities of the
> 3rd pal. has [_final_ U>I after pal.] before [g'U/u > gU/u], etc.
>
> The mixture in this particular word could be from pal. before new
> front V in either the masculine or fem. variants (that is, what would
> have been regular features of the paradigms at the time).

There's also variation in native words like *stIdza/*stIga 'path',
*(po)lIdza/*(po)lIga 'relief, comfort' and *(j)eNga/*(j)eNdza 'illness,
witch'. The palatalisation, it seems, was blocked by final *U, *y (when
they were still rounded) and *u (from the smoothing of *au). In the
Russian/Belarusian area the velar (from the pl. stIgy etc.) was
characteristically generalised, elsewhere we usually get reflexes of *dz
(but with sporadic exceptions).

Piotr