Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)

I don't know.

I wonder though if it may have something to do with the Great Vowel Shift in
English?  The pronunciation of <AE> in VL had shifted from /ai)/ to long e
(E: / e: ?), and the English GVS shifted /E:/ and /e:/ to /i:/  -  perhaps
the answer lies there somewhere?


P.

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From: "Eugene Oh" <un.doing@...>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 6:12 PM
To: <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)

> Does anyone know how <ae> came to be pronounced as [i(:)] anyway?
>
> Eugene
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
>> wrote:
>>>> > Does this also apply to the many family names in -Ciidae? (eg.
>>>> Tropidophiidae,
>>>> > Brontotheriidae)
>>>>
>>>> Not IME; those are /'i@daj/, not */'iajdaj/.
>>>
>>> Thanks. The final /aj/ does surprise me - I'd expected /i/.
>>
>> I've heard /ej/ there; I could believe /i/, but haven't heard it that
>> way.  IME the /i/ pronunciation of <ae> seems limited to words that
>> have been more Anglicized and no longer "feel" like Latin.
>>
>> --
>> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>>