Re: Why no umlaut?

From: tgpedersen
Message: 54952
Date: 2008-03-10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
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> However, the roots in Dutch haring "herring" and paling "eel" don't
> exist in Dutch. How come they have no umlaut then? Analogy?
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> Torsten
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> Substrate word ?
>
> Arnaud
>

If they are, then *-inga- <*-en-ko- is substrate too, probably Vasconic.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/31515
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/36030
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/36297


Torsten