Re: ConGermanicRomanceLang?
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 11, 2000, 0:53 |
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Steg Belsky wrote:
>...> I don't think Yiddish has any _pf_...although not remembering very much
> of my one year of it two years ago, i can't think of any cognates with
> English _p-_ words to figure out what it does have there.
It's /f/, as in fayfer < German Pfeifer.
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