Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

Philip Newton wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:38:51 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>
>>But it isn't /'loi.te/ that becomes /lIt/ rather the form which
>>[loe.t@] *developed from* became [lIt], which is a different thing.
>>I cant give any references off the top of my head, but I'm almost
>>certain that the Middle High German preform of /oi/ was /2H/.
>>It is not at all hard to imagine that this monophthongized to
>>something [Y]-ish which then unrounded.
>
>
> The cognate is "Lüüd" in (at least some variants of) Plattdeutsch,
> FWIW, with /y/.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
>
>
I expected as much!

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