Re: i-Mutation
| From: | Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 31, 2004, 21:05 |
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:55:09 -0400, Yann Kiraly <yann_kiraly@...> wrote:
>Does anybody have an Idea into what sound an i could mutate (a->ä,o->ö,u-
>>ü,e([e]very->ë(German [E]nde))? I am constructing a language that uses
>these mutations for grammatical infelction.
It could easily become rounded and then be pronounced ü /y/.
This has already happened in German with foreign words from English, e.g.
"mystery". German doesn't have an y by itself, it exclusively occurs in
words imported from foreign languages, and somehow, the y in foreign words
(if it's not at the end of the word) which is normally /i/ became rounded
and thus /y/
so mystery would be /mysteri/ rather than /misteri/.
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