German vocalism

From: alex
Message: 37917
Date: 2005-05-18

1) is the German "au" from anything else as an older "u"?
(latin murus > mauer, durare > dauer, IE *suru >sauer, etc)

1) any idea when the "u" > "au" in German stoped as phenomenon?

thank you in advance,

Alex




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