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

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:38:40 -0500, "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].
>

Fuji (is in fact [h] > [P], but close enough).

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