Re: Outcomings

At 10:44 12.8.2000 -0700, J Matthew Pearson wrote:
>Mangiat wrote:
>
> > Just a question: is the term 'outcoming' right to describe a sound or
> even a
> > word derived from another? I'm translating a grammar of my dialect,
> here's a
> > piece of it:
> >
> > <<). In a closed syllable the outcoming can be u (promptu > prunt; ordo >
> > urdin; cepulla > scigula; curte > curt; gutta > guta; ne gutta > nagutt CM;
> > furnu > furnu; crusta > crusta; pulvere > pulvar; vulpe > vulp; dulce >
> > dulz; ung(u)la > ungia) or ü (spongia > spügna; pullu > püj; nos > nün; vos
> > > vü; duo > düü). >>
>
>A technical term for a derivative is "reflex".  This term is generally applied
>to words (as in "Modern English _loaf_ is the reflex of Old English _hla:f_"),
>but I don't see why it couldn't be applied to sounds as well.
>
>Matt.

It is.



/BP 8^)>
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