Original scientific paper

Proto-Indo-European *sk- in Slavic

Ranko Matasović orcid.org/0000-0001-7068-3036 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Abstract

This paper offers an extensive analysis of the reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European word-initial cluster *sk- in Proto-Slavic. It is argued that the regular reflex of this cluster is the Proto-Slavic *x-, but that *sk- was analogously re-introduced in a great number of cases under the influence of prefixed forms and cases where forms with and without the so-called “s-mobile” co-existed in Slavic. This conclusion is in accordance with the fact that *x- < *sk- is far more common in derivationally isolated words that do not occur with prefixes.

Keywords

consonant clusters; Proto-Slavic; historical phonology; Indo-European; s-mobile

Hrčak ID:

83990

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/83990

Publication date:

30.4.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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