Re: Vowel Harmony Asthetically Pleasing?

J. 'Mach' Wust scripsit:

> I've also seen the Germanic umlauts described as vowel harmony processes,
> though it's cases where it's not the vowels of the affixes that change
> according to the main word, but the main word's vowels that change according
> to the affixes, as in _gesti_ (guests) where the original /a/ is changed to
> an /e/ because of the following /i/.
Yes, I think it's paculuar to ipply the term "vowol harmono" when the enfluence
runs backwards.

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