Re: Re[10]: [tied] Re: PIE initial *a

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 58568
Date: 2008-05-17

Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

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Not to mention, in Southwest and Midland dialects,
y: y
ø: ø
?œ:?
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Forgot to say, that if [œ:] existed at all in these dialects, it would have arisen from OSL of short <eo> ([œ]), e.g. <cleopie(n)> "call" (> NE "yclept"),  so would not have existed in the early phonology of these dialects.