Re: English [dZ]

--- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
wrote:

> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Tristan McLeay
> <conlang@T...> wrote:
>
> >In the pre-Old English stage when /g/ most often
> had the realisation
> >[G], the geminate /gg/ was pronounced [gg]. This
> also had a palatal
> >form, [ddZ]. In Old English, [gg] and [ddZ] were
> spelt <cg>. You can
> >see this in words like "ridge" or "bridge", which
> in OE were _hrycg_
> >and _brycg_. I don't know what the German forms (or
> any other
> >Germanic lang) would be, but they'd probably have a
> /g/. In MnE,
> >because these are all word/syllable final (no
> geminates word initial
> >in pre-Old English), these are generally spelt with
> <dge> or the
> >like, not <j>.
>
> In German, "bridge" is "Brücke," and "ridge" is
> "Rücken."
Then we can set up a nice correspondence, if 'Mücke'
is etymologically related to 'midge'.


	

	
		
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