Re: *oy vey*
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 19:12 |
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En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> That _vee_ is suspiciously similar to English "fee", which's Swedish
> cognate
> _fä_ means "livestock". Has Dutch been vary evil against labiodental
> fricatives during some period of it's history?
>
In one word: no, but all other Germanic languages were :)) . Many English words
beginning with "f" have a cognate in "v" in Dutch. In German the cognate is
also written with "v", but since in German "v" stands for /f/, it doesn't
count :)) . But the German orthography inclines me to say that what Dutch did
was basically keeping voiced labiodentals where other languages devoiced
them :)) .
Christophe.
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