Reconstruction talk:Proto-Slavic/tolkti

Eastern Slavic specific phonological change

 * This is likely a quite late pronunciation, specific for East Slavic. I wouldn't reconstruct it on a proto-Slavic level. In East Slavic, in general pSl. *-el-/*-ьl- became buccalized in closed environment, before a hard syllable. That's why one encounters 🇨🇬,  instead of expected **мелеко, *велк. In principle, here the following syllable eventually becomes soft and perhaps for this reason Melnychuk gives *tolkti.

From a comparative perspective, this *tolkti is rather dubious. O-grade stem-verbs are possible (cf., ) but they are rarely ablauting. Alternation between 0- and o-grade occurs only in and it is most likely а result of phonological change (earlier heterosyllabic *-e|v- > *-o|v- before a back vowel + generalization).

On this account, I would keep as the original and *tolkti only as an intermediate stage from Proto-Slavic to Old East Slavic and onwards.

PS Of the proposed descendants, only 🇨🇬 and the omitted 🇨🇬 actually reflect full grade in the infinitive. The remaining descendants point instead towards 0-grade. Безименен (talk) 09:37, 14 May 2023 (UTC)