Re: OT: French/English etymology question: "sauf"/"save"
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 7, 2003, 17:07 |
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At 00:42 7.12.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
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> > 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 should have pointed out that the best description of
a native 'lect is not always the best instruction for
a successful xenolect. My [8w] was supposed to be the
latter.
/BP 8^)
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