From: peter@pmoylan.org.invalid   
      
   On 19/05/24 04:17, Christian Weisgerber wrote:   
   > On 2024-05-18, Ross Clark  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I'm remembering, without consulting any books, but I think there is no   
   >> actual palatalization before (historic) a,o,u, as one might expect.   
   >> The Russian я following palatalized consonant comes from the front nasal   
   >> vowel *ę;   
   >   
   > There are other sources of я.  Just looking at two feminines on -я:   
   > неделя ‘week’ < PSl. *neděľa   
   > заря ‘dawn, dusk’ < PSl. *zořa   
   >   
   >> and unless I'm mistaken ю only represents /ju/ in native   
   >> Slavic words   
   >   
   > любить ‘to love’ < PSl. *ľubiti   
      
   You get a more impressive example with the first person singular of that   
   verb: люблю. Or, now that I think of it, with the first person singular   
   of almost any verb.   
      
   OK, there are some exceptions to that last statement. я иду (I come),   
   for example, lacks the palatalisation.   
      
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