Re: Banin again
| From: | daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 12, 2001, 17:06 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> even in Old French, /a/ was so front that it in some cases
> changed into /ie/ (Bartsh effect) -).
Incidentally I just read about the development of Finno-Saamic
vowels into North Saami. {ä}, i.e. /&/ changed into {á} or {ie}:
*äjmä ['&jm&] 'needle' > áibmi ['a:jbmi] (or ['&jbmi])
*käti ['k&ti] 'hand' > giehta ['gi_Ehta]
{ie} is in this case a falling diphthong. I don't know if
it was in Old French.
Anyway...
daniel
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