Re: And how's about "periphony"? (was: Apophony?)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 29, 1999, 7:30 |
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"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
> But if the German word is being discarded for an 'internationally'
> Greek-formed calque, has the same happened to that other vowel modification
> 'umlaut'?
> The Greek prefix which is closest in meaning to German um- is 'peri'. So
> has the good ol' familiar 'umlaut' also become "periphony"?
Well, I've never even heard of either... it's always been the German
forms for me... (but then, I tend to use words like "Weltanschauung"
excessively much...).
But I think you'd be right if umlaut were "periphony"... if people do
indeed use such words...
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