Re: USAGE: OE pt was Re: USAGE:Yet another few questions about Welsh.

David Barrow wrote:

> Joe wrote:
>
>> David Barrow wrote:
>>
>>> Even though 'Alfred' is a compound: Ælf- ræd?  Was this voicing a
>>> regular feature of OE? Did it happen to /s/ and /T/ as well?
>>>
>>
>> Well, it still happens to /T/.  But, yes, /s/ too.
>
>
> It happens with plurals after 'th'  baths, mouths, paths (though not in
> everybody's accent), with verbs. But in 'paTHless', 'paTHmark',
> ruTHless, claSSroom, staFFroom?  My question is about voicing of /f/,
> /s/ /T/ in OE when there's  compounding:  'forþbrengan', 'eorþbyrig',
> 'lufrædan' and whether it was regular.
>
Ah, right.  Well, final and inital fricatives, could, apparently, be
either voiced or unvoiced.  Thus, þæt could be either [D&t] or [T&t],
and so forth.  As such, in compounds, in which the initial letter of the
latter element was voiced, or the final letter of the former element,
depending on which element has the fricative,  I suspect a voiced sound
would be more likely.