Re: the letter H
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 16, 2003, 3:19 |
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Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
> It depends on the language. Russian, which lost /h/ long
> ago, historically borrows foreign words with /h/ as /g/,
> written <g>. (This is due to the influence of Ukrainian,
> which borrows /h/ as /G/, which corresponds to Russian /g/).
> Modern words from English are sometimes borrowed as /x/.
We established a while back that the /x/ mechanism is now the
dominant one; /g/ is rather 19th century.
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them
alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag
went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am
Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider. --Bilbo to Smaug