Re: [tied] Re: Mi- and hi-conjugation in Germanic

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 36700
Date: 2005-03-11

On 05-03-10 05:48, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> [BTW, why is there no fracture in <heht>? There should be,
> if the form is old].

Not in Anglian, where diphthongs (long and short, of whatever origin)
were smoothed before velars.

Piotr