Pronunciation of 'g' in '-ogo' and 'ego'

[Olga Meerson]

I feel you are right, Will. The only synchronic evidence we have (that may or may not agree with the dialectal, but seems to me to agree) is that in Ch. Slavonic, even in proper, unrussified pronunciation today, it is -eho / -oho--just because g is supposed to be fricative, just as in Ukrainian or in several dialects of Russian. So the -oho- stage seems to be more primary, not merely dialectal. The rest I see the way you do (i.e., the way Will does).
o.m.

----- Original Message -----
From: William Ryan <wfr at SAS.AC.UK>
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:26 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pronunciation of 'g' in '-ogo' and 'ego'

> Boris Unbegaun, La Langue russe au XVI siecle, Paris, 1935, p. 322 
> gives 
> this change as 15th-century and says the reason for g>v in these 
> cases, 
> despite all attempts to explain it, remains obscure. He gives 
> footnote 
> references to Sobolevskii and Plotnikova. No doubt there have been 
> newer 
> hypotheses since then. I recall a suggestion of dialectal changes 
> of 
> unstressed -ogo> -oho> -oo, with a subsequent epethetic v (as in 
> pauk>pavuk), but I can't remember where, and I fear the chronology 
> and 
> written evidence of the intermediate forms required might exclude 
> such 
> an explanation.
> 
> Will Ryan
> 
> 
> Roebuck-Johnson, Aimee M. (JSC-AH) wrote:
> > Dear List members, 
> >     I'm trying to find a resource that gives the history 
> of/reasong for the pronunciation of the Russian character 'g' as 
> 'v' in genitive case endings (-ego, -ogo) and the mascule 
> possessive pronoun 'ego'.  I've found the following resource, but 
> I'd like, if possible, to have some thing more specific about the 
> time period and reason for the difference in the pronunciation of 
> 'g'.  Any direction would be appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Aimee Roebuck-Johnson
> >
> > http://www.polyglot-center.ru/info/rus-lan.htm#top
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