Re: Wenedyk - Master (?) Plan

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> > >> > >Nasalization of the preceding vowel leads (like in
> Russian and other
> > >> > >Slavic languages, but unlike in Polish) lead to the
> following changes:
> > >> > >[a~]     [u]
> >
> > Back to this-- is it possible the correspondence results
> from a previous
> > schwa stage? or unaccented vowel of some sort?
>
> I doubt it. It occurs often on accented vowels, too. But of
> course, who said
> that schwa cannot be accented?)
May it be noted that Bulgarian does exactly this - [o~] gives [@], as in
_l@k_, Rus. _luk_ (bow (the one which goes with arrows)), Lithuanian
_lankas_ "curve", or _@g@l_, Rus. _ugol_, Eng. _angle_.

Pavel
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