Re: English Construct State/Future Arabic
From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 4:50 |
From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>
| expressions of "X-of-Y". The weakening of "f" in "of" has a strange parallel
in
| Irish/Scots Gaelic: when /f/ is lenited (written "fh"), it becomes zero, while
| when it is "nasalized" (written ***bfh***, yuck!), it becomes /v/ (which has
the
Uh, try again. The trigraph is <bhf>.
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