Re: CHAT: Dwarfs/dwarves (was Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin)

Anton Sherwood wrote:
> What's up with Spanish /o>we/, anyhow?
> Was it at first /o>w@/ and /i>j@/, and later /@>e/?
Old Spanish /E/ and /O/ when stressed became, respectively, /jE/ and
/wO/.  Later, via dissimilation, /wO/ became /wE/, and then when the
/E/-/e/ and /O/-/o/ pairs merged, they became /je/ and /we/

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