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Porphyrogenitos wrote: ↑

12 May 2020 03:42

2.
*i → ɪi̯ → ɛi̯ →əi̯ / øi̯ → oi̯
*u → ʊu̯ → ɔu̯ → əu̯ → ɛu̯ / iu̯

This is interesting. My focus is on a different area, but some dialects of Arpitan have somehow changed /i/ into /ə~ø/, and I've been at a loss to explain it.

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"Than" actually started as an adverb, back in Old English. But I suspect it very quickly merged with "tha", which was used in comparisons exactly as "than" is now, and perhaps with "thone", the accusative form of 'the', which came to be used as a relative pronoun. I left this out, but as I understa...

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There are a lot of instances of reduplication in English where the first element contains /ɪ/ and the second contains some other vowel (often /æ/ or /ɑ/), so-called "ablaut reduplication". Pish posh! Stop with all this flim-flam and jibber-jabber! Vowels are such a wibbly-wobbly mishmash of knick-k...

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You're a melody from Sonata E by Strauss! :P

Don't know if that's a compliment. Seems a bit moody.

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Iyionaku wrote: ↑

19 Apr 2020 12:02

Your blessed father knew that, in fact, he frequently sought it!

This part is slightly different: "… he frequently saw to it!"

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elemtilas wrote: ↑

15 Apr 2020 03:15

Not sure how useful it would actually be, though! I didn't see anything specifically by Okrand there, mind.

Yeah, one takes what one can get, at least until one figures out how to jump timelines based on box office figures.

elemtilas wrote: ↑

15 Apr 2020 01:06

For Atlantean, I think one would have to write to Okrand or Diznee.

The "reconstruction" or decipherment seems to be about all there is.

Ooh, thank you for the link!

All4Ɇn wrote: ↑

15 Apr 2020 00:46

Sueco "Swede" and zueco "clog"
Both pronounced exactly the same outside of Spain and I could see people thinking they're related since Sweden is home to träskor

Hmm, zueco pretty clearly comes from Latin soccus, so I wonder why the initial consonant fronted.