Re: Umlaut

Hello,

> This is a good start, but umlauting is usually taken to mean that
> an /i/ in one part of the word causes not diphthongization, but
> an actual change in some phonological feature of a neighboring
> vowel.
Um, in Germanic languages possibly yes. This is not the case with
Bryttonic _i_-affection, which does turn, say, _a_ into _ei_ in Middle
Welsh, so _bardd_, pl. _beird(d)_.

> (The rules you posit above of course are also possible, but then
> one does not usually call them umlaut.)
Call them _i_-affection then.

Pavel
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