From: alex
Message: 22878
Date: 2003-06-08
> ----- Original Message -----*mu:s being what ? ( I guess you refer here with "mi" to Albanian "mi"=
> From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> 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