Re: THEORY: Evolution of infixes/ablaut?
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 23, 2000, 18:41 |
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:07:40 -0600, Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
wrote:
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>It seems to me that German auch would be from PIE *auk, <...>
Oh, no! The development would be different:
PIE *auk(V) > PGerm *auh(V) > OHG *ôh > German *och
(with vowel developing as in hoch: diphthong cannot be preserved
before the original h in OHG)
>shift in the standard dialect (/p/ > /pf/; /t/ > /ts/; but not /k/ > /kx/).
PGerm *k > OHG hh > German ch after a vowel (cf. machen : make, etc.).
Similarly, *p > ff (Affe : ape), *t > ss (weiss : white).
Basilius