Open AccessTHE PREHISTORY OF THE SLAVIC CLUSTERS ST IN THE DIACHRONIC CONTEXT
Author(s) -
Ondřej Šefčík
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
slavia occidentalis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2544-9222
pISSN - 0081-0002
DOI - 10.14746/so.2020.77.8
Subject(s) - slavic languages , armenian , context (archaeology) , prehistory , cluster (spacecraft) , history , geography , linguistics , ancient history , classics , philosophy , archaeology , computer science , programming language
The paper aims at presenting four different sources of the Slavic clusters st and analysing them in diachronic contexts, according to their origins (< IE *st, *št, *Ḱt, *Tt). The IE cluster *st has been fully preserved, the late IE cluster *št is de-palatalized as is the satəm-cluster *Ḱt (which has merged with *št in almost all the satəm-languages). The cluster *Tt developed regularly into st in Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian languages (and Greek), into 0s in Albanian and u̯t in Armenian – the Armenian development leads to preference for the cluster’s spirantization (as stated earlier by Bartholomae for Indo-Iranian) over the traditional “Brugmannian” affricativization.