Re: OT: an axe to grind

yes, that's what i meant....just had to quickly send
the email since i was at work. ;)

Although, i'm not sure if it's an across the board
change, that is, i dont know if i-umlaut happens in
every circumstance.
 -elliott

--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

> Elliott Lash skrev:
>
> > This is my problem as well. My email
> > erelion12@yahoo.com, is a rather odd one,
> considering
> > it from the silindion perspective. The name
> "Erelion"
> > means "Evening Star", a compound of "el-"
> (compounding
> > form meaning "evening" and "ol-" the root of
> "olos"
> > meaning "star". The -ion is a masculine name
> ending.
> > The only problem of course is that this would
> result
> > in "Erolion", which is the current form of the
> name.
> > But, I can't go about changing my email name now
> to
> > fit this change in the language. I've decided that
> it
> > comes from a more northern version of Silindion,
> where
> > the _o_ of "ol-" has become _e_ by assimilation.
>
> Maybe the northern dialect has i-umlaut! :-)
>
> a > e
> e > i
> o > ø > e
> u > y > i
>
> before an /i/ or /j/ in the next syllable...
>
>
> /BP 8^)>
> --
> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
>
>     "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says
> it
>     it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it
> it
>     means "no"!
>
>                             (Philip Jonsson jr, age
> 7)
>

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