Re: conculture; vocabulary

Fakaltin=E1u:
> Or even just dialects.
As I was revising my dictionary, I discovered an interesting doublet,
one native, the other borrowed from a related dialect, using Pure
Phonemic Orthography:
janda'/yanta' (borrowed/native) meaning "kind/sinless"
Standard Orthography is dtyanda'/yanta', incidentally

The common ancestor was Old W. gehane"ta' (meaning pure, innocent,
without malice) (/gehan@'ta/), which became gyanta', this is where the
two split.  In Standard Watakass=ED, <gy> became <y> (/gj/ --> /J/ (pal.
fric) --> /j/).  In some dialects, /gj/ and /dj/ merged as /dZ/, and
voiceless consonants following nasals became voiced, so that <nt> became
<nd>, thus in those, gyanta' became janta', then janda'.

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