Re: Re[2]: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

I've heard MANY French people pronounce "I ask" as /ay
haesk/
The example I gave was kaska- which is related to
English ash

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> From: Rick McCallister
> What peaks my curiosity is why words with glottal
> stop
> in Scandinavian were borrowed into pre-Finnish with
> /k/
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> Like in which word ?
> I would more readily suspect a velar voiced spirant
> in that case.
> Arnaud
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> Did Germanic glottal stop come from something else?
> Or
> is it normal for glottal stop to be perceived as /k/
> by people whose language lacks glottal stop?
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> If you don't have glottal stop in your language
> you don't even *hear* it's there
> Cf. French renditions of Arabic words.
> fi s-sa?a > fissa
> Arnaud
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