Re: Why no umlaut?

On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:40:20 -0000, "tgpedersen"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>However, the roots in Dutch haring "herring" and paling "eel" don't
>exist in Dutch. How come they have no umlaut then? Analogy?

Haring is from P(W)Gmc. *hæ:ringaz, and there is no Umlaut
on long vowels in Dutch. The same might apply to "paling",
but since the word is only Dutch, it's hard to tell what the
/a:/ is derived from.

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