Re: A question on vowel orthography

> Date:         Fri, 24 May 2002 18:47:26 +0200
> From: daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...>
>
> Andreas wrote:
> > As |aa| perhaps? That's the origin of Nordic a-ring, at
> > any rate.
>
> It is? I was under the impression that the origin was |ao| or
> even earlier o-med-kvist (or o-med-hake). That is, u-umlauted
> a. Or are we talking about different things?
This is all IIRC:

In the earliest Common Scandinavian (non-runic) texts, the u-umlaut of
a = /a/, short or long, was written variously o-hook, ao, or just a;
its value then was probably /Q/.

Later the long version merged with /A:/ > /Q:/ on the mainland, and
that's where the aa spelling came in --- in Denmark, it was official
until 1949.

But graphically,