Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 14, 2003, 10:35 |
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
> > But why the short 'o' in Latin?
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> No idea! Perhaps some variant of Gothic lowered /u/ to [o]?
It is probable that at some stage of the Gothic language, (short) [u] and
[o] (and [i] and [e]) were allophones. Though IIRC they were lowered
before /h, s, r/ (and spelt <au> and <ai>), none of which are /t/...
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Tristan.