Re: i-Mutation

Quoting "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...>:

> 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/.
This wouldn't relate to the fact those foreign 'y's very often, as in this case,
derives from a Greek ypsilon, by any chance?

                                            Andreas