29-09-2020, 07:44 PM
(29-09-2020, 07:16 PM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(29-09-2020, 01:44 PM)geoffreycaveney wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If we read <béz bas> as "bez vas"Is there good historical evidence for a /b/ --> /v/ sound change, or vice versa, in any West Slavic dialects since the middle ages? I'm aware this is a very common sound change and allophone pair, because they're produced at the same place of articulation. But does the /b/<-->/v/ variation apply specifically to the time period and language areas you're talking about here?
No, not really to be honest. It could still appear more as a result of the unusual writing system, in which I do not identify a distinct glyph or sequence specifically to represent /v/. To be honest I would rather expect <was> than <bas> for this Slavic word, but again, we cannot expect perfect consistency or phonemic accuracy from an author writing in a very unusual writing system. It is also possible that these particular vords do not actually mean Slavic "bez vas" here. Accurate interpretation of a couple vords/words in isolation is still quite difficult at this stage of the investigation.