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Re: Epicene words

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Sunday, February 27, 2005, 23:54
Hi!

Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> writes:
>... > _halera_ (< *hal-ir-a) `healer'
Is this a-umlaut? I mean the *-ir-a > -era part of that? I often thought about a-umlaut in some language for lowering high vowels (e.g. in Da Mätz se Basa there are non-productive traces of it). Is it something like that? Does it occur in natlangs? **Henrik