Versification question, Tsvetaeva

[Stuart Goldberg]

But it's бедУ and дЕва, so these can't be part of the list.

Gramota does give скОвороду as one variant.  Never heard anyone say 
this. Is it an older form on its way out?



On 4/26/2010 10:14 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> Last week, I wrote:
>
>> Molly Thomasy Blasing wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Francoise,
>>>
>>> A wonderful choice!  I own a recording of Tsvetaeva poems (read by an
>>> actress--there are no recordings of Tsvetaeva reading her work, as I
>>> understand) and the stress is, as you suggested, on the first
>>> syllable of PO-ru.
>>
>> This is also the standard stress on the accusative, is it not?
>>
>> Пора is one of a small set of two- (occasionally three-) syllable 
>> feminine nouns with retracted stress in the accusative singular. 
>> Compare: нога, рука, голова (from Common Slavic *golvā via 
>> pleophony), щека, etc. (but глава with no retraction from Bulgarian).
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge, these have not yet been leveled out, at 
>> least in the literary language.
>
> A few more examples came to mind as I was cleaning out old emails. 
> This is still a closed class of ancient words, with only a few dozen 
> members. Most grammar books will have a more complete list.
>
> беда, гора, дева, зима, земля, изба, река, сковорода(!), спина, стена, 
> сторона, цена
>

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