Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

Clinton Moreland-Stringham wrote:

> In Finnish, for example, mother is "=E4iti" (that's an a with diereses).
An old borrowing from Gothic "ai=FEei" (that's a thorn), where "ei" is th=
e
standard Gothic spelling of /i:/.  The inherited Uralic form is
"emo", which now is used only for animal mothers in non-archaic-poetic
language ("dam" in English).

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