Re: [tied] Re: ANUS

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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
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Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: ANUS


> Albanian /y/= /iu/ as in "Tür" and this is not a properly fronting to /i/
of backvowel /u/, is it?

In standard German, <Tür> contains /y/ (a rounded front vowel, and a
monophthong), _not_ /iu/ (a diphthong). Proto-Albanian stressed *u: was
fronted an became its front counterpart *y: (modern /y/), preserving the
lip-rounding (the same thing happened to German /u/ in umlauting
environments). The unrounding of /y/ to /i/ took place word-finally in
monosyllabic words, as in *mu:s > *my: > mi .

Piotr