Re: Plural vowel change
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 28, 1999, 2:08 |
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:33:51 +0000 "Raymond A. Brown"
<raybrown@...> writes:
>In Old English the rounded front vowels became unrounded, so it had:
>fo:t
>(sing.), fe:t (plural). These developed regularly to modern English
>'foot'
>and 'feet'. Thus, to answer one of your later questions, the change
>is a
>fronting of the vowel.
>Ray.
>
This only happened in Old English? I thought it happened someplace far
back in Germanic language's history, since the same exact thing exists in
Yiddish...the plural of /fus/ (foot) is /fis/ (feet).
Weird....
-Stephen (Steg)
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