Re: Prov. Eastern Orthography - Vowels

I had written:
> thus ga'ndra = /'go~.dr@/
Correction, this is written ga'ndro, /'go~.dr@/ is correct.  This comes
from the Old Watakassi' (my new name for W., for those who missed my
recent post) ga'nol.  /'ga.nol/ --> /'ga.n@l/ --> /'ga.n@r/ -->
/'gaw.n@r/ --> /'gow.n@r/ --> /'gow.nr@/ --> /'gown.dr@/ --> /'gow~.dr@/
--> /'go~.dr@/  In Standard Watakassi', this became ga'nul.  One dialect
of Eastern has shortened it to one syllable, ga'nrd - /go~rd/, by
metathesis of the /dr/, and elimination of the schwa (which is always
eliminated when possible).

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