Re: LONG: Latest Wenetaic Stuff
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 3, 1999, 15:31 |
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Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 03/11/99 15:54:06 , vous avez =E9crit :
> Don Blaheta wrote:
> =20
> > Aber nat=FCrlich! When -chen is added (-lein too? I forget), it front=
s
> > the main vowel, i.e. umlauts it. Thus "Katz" but "K=E4tzchen", "Mad" b=
ut
> > "M=E4dchen", and presumably "Kuh" but "K=FChchen".
> =20
> Often but not always. Anyway, if so, that ruins the supposed perfect
> minimal pair kuchen/Kuhchen.
> =20
(don't take me wrong, i'm no picky on such a very trivial issue ;-)
the umlaut is always there on a, o and u precedent
to have "chen" be pronounced [=E7en] like in K=FCche,
not [xen] as in kuchen.
die Kuh > das K=FChchen
das Huhn > das H=FChnchen
mathias