Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

>>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
In my understanding, the contemporarity can be seen from words standardized
from dialects that _did_ palatalize before front rounded vowels. (/y Y/ at
least, I'm not sure about /2/.) A fairly convincing example is "church",
also demonstrating y > u / _r.

John Vertical