W dniu 2011-06-25 20:52, Joao S. Lopes pisze:
> long or short O ?
It's short in Latin.
> Are there many examples of this initial cluster stl- in another IE
> languages?
No, that's why I argue for vowel syncope in the initial syllable. There
are a few examples of stl- in Latin, though. Apart from <stlocus> we
have OLat. stli:s > Class.Lat. li:s, -tis 'lawsuit', <stlatta ~ stla:ta>
'cargo-boat, barge' and the derived adjective <stlatta:rius ~
stla:ta:rius> 'imported by boat' (both of which are rare poetic words
preserved in their archaic form till Classical times), plus the clearly
onomatopoeic hapax <stloppus> 'slap on an inflated cheek'.
Piotr