From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55827
Date: 2008-03-23
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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>The Polish form is completely regular. The Slavic etymon has
>*g, which is palatalized to dz (3) > z in East and South
>Slavic before palatalized /v'/, but not in West Slavic (Pol.
>gwiazda, Cz. hvêzda).
>
>The Baltic etymon has *g^, which is the source of Lith /z^/.
>
>Vacillation *k^ ~ *k etc. before another consonant is quite
>common in Balto-Slavic.
>MCV
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>I suppose you are right this time.
>
>Do you have examples of the contrary ?
>
>Baltic having *g when West slavic having *g^
I suppose you mean Baltic *g (*k) vs. Slavic *g^ (*k^).
The standard example is Lith. klausyti ~ Slav. slus^êti
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I meant a case
where Baltic and East Slavic has *g or *k
but West Slavic has *g^ or *k^
An inverted irregular "vacillation".
Arnaud
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