Re: Lithuanian diphthongs

There is -ai in Lithuanian language because there isn't short "o" sound in Lithuanian lnguage.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:
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> > Does anyone know under what conditions IE *ei and *oi become respectively <ei> and <ai> in Lithuanian, and when they become <ie>? For example, is it determined by tone or stress?
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> There are no known conditions and it was probably optional, like many other Baltic changes.
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> Also, why does <vienas> "one" have <v->?
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> It's obviously because PIE h3 = xW and in IE xW > w and w > xW were opt. (such as in the dual * -ó:xW / -ó:w ), though this is not standard theory.
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