Conlang: Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words (Muke Tever, Jun 5 '01, 1:06)

Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words

From:	Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:	Tuesday, June 5, 2001, 1:06

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Muke Tever <alrivera@...>

Date:

Tuesday, June 5, 2001, 1:06

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>On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:57:21AM -0400, Andreas Johansson wrote: >> Danny Wier wrote: >> >dwag "a fish" dwga "many fish" >> >> Dwga! And I thought Tairezazh had scary initial clusters! (I'm currently >> trying to decide whetehr /fk/ is a valid initial cluster or not. If not, >> would a fk>sk change be believeable?) > >It sure would. Old English had a change of (word-initial) fn > sn, e.g. >sneeze < fne:osan (although the AHD4 calls this example an 'alteration,' >suggesting to me that it wasn't a regular sound change, but still...).

OED says it was most likely from a rereading of 'fnese' as printed with the long-s instead of the f, after the /fn/ became forgotten.

>But I like /fk/ :)

Me too. I also like /ksts/. *Mrifk! -- http://www.southern.edu/~alrivera/ ICQ: 1936556 AIM: MukeTurtle "We're making the Internet easier to use by keeping you from using all of it."