Re: Icelandic umlauts.
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 19, 2000, 20:16 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
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> > The relationship between those stems is *not* umlaut, but
> > rather a different kind of sound change called "sound shift" (my
> > translation).
>
> "Ablaut", at least when applied to the Germanic strong verbs
I've also seen "Lautverschiebung" (presumably what Oskar is translating),
but only in horribly technical works.
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