Re: Genitive apposition (and Swedish questions)

--- "Douglas Koller, Latin & French"
<latinfrench@...> wrote:
> Philippe écrit:
> >>
> >>  How to read "iakttog"? /jakt.../ or /iakt.../
> (don't
> >>  remember that
> >>  omega-like thing in IPA)?
> >
> >Maybe something like *the hunting row, or file* ?
>
> No. "iaktta" means "observe" or "notice". I'm just
> asking how to
> pronounce the bugger.
Oh yes ! One had to understand i-akt-tog
(in-attention-took). I was thinking of German 'Jagd'
(hunting) + 'tog' (file, row, train). As to the
pronunciation, I have an idea of it but I just can't
explain it, being very bad at IPA, and my Yahoo email
server even worse. But you certainly had to say it
like 3 syllables, so not *jakt-*. As to the *o*, in
Norwegian it is often pronounced *u*, like in *ta det
rolig* or *ta det bare med ro* (just take it easy),
but not always (i sommeren = in the summer). It's
longer in *rolig* (and *tog*) than in *sommer*.

>
> >  >From Norwegian I guessed:
> >*The eyebrow was also black, the eye was too deeply
> >inside, as if the whole gaze wanted to hide*
>
> Again, from context, this is sort of what I guessed,
> but I'd like a
> more detailed explanation of  "ögonen låg för långt
> in".
I understand it like that:
oegonen = the eye (article *en* postposed after oegon;
I wonder whether it's pronounced *oeyonen* or
*oegonen* ?)
laag = laid
foer = (probably *too much* ?; better ask Andreas)
laangt = long, or deep/far ? Norwegian *det er langt
igjen* = it's still far away
in = inside
but that's only my general feeling from Norwegian.



=====
Philippe Caquant

"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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