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Re: Icelandic umlauts

From:Ben van Poppel <benny@...>
Date:Saturday, June 24, 2000, 9:24
I've been looking at Gothic in recent months, the only of the old East
Germanic languages that we have extensive knowledge about. Gothic
itself does not use umlaut shifts, but it seemed that the
irregularities in Icelandic have to do with what suffix-vowel the word had in
Proto-Germanic. For example, go. f