Re: Icelandic umlauts.
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 19, 2000, 17:00 |
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Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> 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
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