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Re: Banin again

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Friday, January 12, 2001, 17:06
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 -- <> "As far as I'm concerned <> daniel.andreasson@telia.com <> <> I prefer silent vice to <> Daniel Andreasson <> <> ostentatious virtue" -- Albert Einstein <>