At 2:48:22 PM on Monday, July 2, 2007, stlatos wrote:
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> What about ON han- >> hon 'she', hennar 'her (gen.)'?
What's the problem?
Writing /ö(:)/ and /ë(:)/ for the u-umlaut and i-umlaut,
respectively, of /a(:)/:
*ha:naz > *ha:naR > *ha:nR > ha:nn > hann
*ha:nu > *hö:nu > hö:n > ho:n
*ha:naizo:z > *ha:ne:zo:z > *ha:nizaz > *ha:niRaR >
*hë:nRaR > *hë:nnaR > hennar
Or the like.
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> Why don't you have palatalized K in Proto-Germanic?
Why would you?
Brian