Re: Re[2]: [tied] Spanish /fV-/ > /hV-/

But there a difference here. I speaking about initial
/f-/
BTW: Doesn't the Dutch /ft/ vs /xt/ have something to
do with Celtic?

--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 2:07:39 AM on Wednesday, February 20, 2008,
> fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > The change f to h or h to f
> > in either way is not rare.
> > Cf. after = Dutch achter.
>
> Which is not, strictly speaking, a change [f] > [h],
> but
> rather [f] > [x]. English has a number of sporadic
> examples
> of [x] > [f] (e.g., <laughter>, <rough>). I don't
> offhand
> know of any examples of [h] > [f].
>
> Brian
>
>
>
>
>

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