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Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

From:Alex Fink <000024@...>
Date:Monday, August 11, 2008, 16:35
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:21:08 -0400, John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
wrote:

>Old English did not palatalize before rounded front vowels. >[kYn] > [kIn] >[kIn] > [tSIn]
Is that so? I thought that the palatalisation completed before the i-affectation that gave rise to [Y], so what we're seeing here was more or less [kuni] > [kuni] > [kyni] > [kyn] [kini] > [tSini] > [tSini] > [tSin] (no idea if those are protoforms of real words). Alex