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Re: OT: French/English etymology question: "sauf"/"save"

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Saturday, December 6, 2003, 20:49
At 17:31 6.12.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> ...snip... > > Swedish has _utom_ ["8wtom], which suggests itself > > to be a frozen dativus loci of an adjective derived > > from 'out'. > >I thought you were of the /u\:/=[2^w:] (that's a long labialized mid-high >front vowel) persuasion?
You mean [2_w:]? Yes I am, but I cheat-transcribe! I also use /8/ as the phonemic symbol in X-SAMPA/CXS. For what its worth I arrange the Swedish vowel phonemes in a quadrangular like so: i y u e u å ä ö a which may seem over-idealized from the POV of your 'lect. Mind you my 'lect_1 has 12 vowel phonemes, distinguishing /8/ from /2_w/, /a/ from /A/ and /3\/ from /2/, all 12 occurring both long and short. OTOH [A(:)] and [Q(:)] seem to be in complementary distribution. I even suspect my use of [Q] is a Gothenburgism. OTOH (2) I don't have any qualitative difference between short/long /i/ and /y/, but I do have /e/ or /2/ in many cases where people from up Central have short i/y. Now guess why American dialects which do not distinguish [Q] or [O] from [A] are a blessing to my xenolect! When not on my guard I tend to realize English /ou/ as [o:]. /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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