Reconstruction talk:Proto-Balto-Slavic/śímta

And why not śimtan? --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 05:24, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

As usual, a Slavic word that doesn't fit well into so-called "Balto-Slavic" reconstructions is marked "irregular". That's the truly scientific way of reasoning, I guess. 178.46.71.50 13:07, 30 December 2015 (UTC)


 * It's almost fully proven to be an Iranian borowing and not a descendant of.


 * Such an evolution of *ę dirrectly into *ъ is impossible. In Bulgarian there are some simillar examples like < 🇨🇬 but here existed a doublet form  because the two Yus'es began to merge (as in Polish, for example) and then the Big Yus in  became a clear vowel, i.e. ѫ > ъ.


 * The only possible descendant of the PBSl form is . It's sure that it existed once. And yes, it has to be moved to or dirrectly to . (This has to be done of course to  and similar lexems. Ентусиастъ (talk) 18:53, 13 July 2021 (UTC)