From: stlatos
Message: 67715
Date: 2011-06-09
>I know oi>ai, it's ai>ie that has no expl.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "andythewiros" <anjarrette@> 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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> There is -ai in Lithuanian language because there isn't short "o" sound in Lithuanian lnguage.