Re: GSF revisited
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 7, 2007, 16:16 |
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On 5/7/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> > What about /yi/? I know it was rather marginal.
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> So marginal, I had forgotten it. Before a vowel it will be [yj], so
> "son" is _yjo_
> Does it ever occur before consonants?
The only stems I'm aware of that have survived into MG are uio- and
arpuia "harpy": before a vowel, in both cases. (Not that that rules
out further stems which fell out of use between AG and MG, but still.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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