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#The Common Slavic *ě turned into a diphthong *ie and later merged with *ē by the XIVth century (*sě̑no "hay" became *sḕno). | #The Common Slavic *ě turned into a diphthong *ie and later merged with *ē by the XIVth century (*sě̑no "hay" became *sḕno). | ||
#The long ending ''-ā'' in nominative plural of neutral grammatical gender became short ''-a'' like in genitive singular. | #The long ending ''-ā'' in nominative plural of neutral grammatical gender became short ''-a'' like in genitive singular. | ||
#Word-final *ł (hard or velarized "l") developed into *w: *wołk "wolf" became *wowk, *orèł "eagle" → worèw (but orel in Ukrainian, arol in Belarusian, which indicates that the change was irregular in those languages). A similar process also happened in Polish, but later it spread onto every position of ł that was not palatalized. | |||
====Late Old Ruthenian==== | ====Late Old Ruthenian==== | ||
This is the time, when Ruthenian became distinct from Ukrainian and Belarusian, developing its unique features. | This is the time, when Ruthenian became distinct from Ukrainian and Belarusian, developing its unique features. | ||