Re: TERMS: Umlaut-Ablaut
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 15, 1999, 19:05 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> Old Norse has examples
> of i-umlaut & u-umlaut (Does it also have a-umlaut? I wasn't aware of it)
There are fossil traces. I don't have my reference book to hand, but
I believe the alternation between "gold-" and "geld-" is a-umlaut on
the latter.
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