Re: Bunty.

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From: "Lars Finsen" <lars.finsen@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:10 PM
To: <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Bunty.

> Hi,
> I have a question for experts in English language history. If Old  English
> had acquired a loan-word /bunty/, what should we expect as  the outcome in
> later English? Bounty /baunti/?
>
> I am thinking of Bunty as an old name for my conworld, from Suraetua  bun
> = copper + ty = land. If a land north of Scotland later were  known as
> Bountyland, it might attract a lot of immigration, I guess.
>
> LEF


No expert, far far from it, but depending the length of the original vowels
I would hazard some guesses:


If you have to take i-umlaut into account (not sure when this took place,
diachronically speaking WRT to "English") -

Beent /bi:nt/
Bint /bai)nt/ (i.e. rhyming with 'pint', not 'skint')

Else -

Bunt  /bVnt/
Bount /baU)nt/
Bunte, *Boont /bunt/


P.

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