Re: Optional Soundlaws (was: IE *aidh- > *aus-tr- 'hot, warm (wind)'

At 1:29:50 PM on Saturday, October 23, 2010, andythewiros
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>> From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>
>> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Sat, October 23, 2010 12:39:04 AM
>> Subject: [tied] Optional Soundlaws (was: IE *aidh- >
>> *aus-tr- 'hot, warm (wind)')

[...]

>> 1) The Modern English 3-way split of the reflex of OE o:,
>> e.g. Modern English _blood_, _good_ and _mood_.

[...]

> Is this English 3-way development of OE *o: before /d/
> possibly due to the preceding consonant?

> I.e. after a labial it becomes /u:/ (<mood>, <food>),
> after /l/ it becomes /V/ (<blood>, <flood>), and after
> other consonants before /d/ it becomes /U/ (<good>,
> <hood>)?

<Rood> has /u:/. So has <brood>.

Brian