Re: x > f sound change
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 14, 2001, 18:10 |
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At 12:00 2001-09-13 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>There's also German _luft_ vs. Dutch _lucht_, though IIRC that's unique;
>probably ultimately a dialect form.
>
>Another: Germ. Stiftung, Du. stichting; unclear exactly what the base forms
>are.
IIRC /ft/ > /xt/ is regular in Dutch and northern German (Platt) dialects.
/BP 8^)>
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