Re: Magyar uveg <-> Romanian uiag&

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 57941
Date: 2008-04-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george_st@> wrote:
> >
> > >The main problem is ü-
> > >Where is the triggering factor for ü ?
> > >
> > >Arnaud
> >
> > /ü/ might be the latest development. I'd ask whether there were
other,
> > "intermediary" vowels, prior to /ü/. AFAIK, no one has said /ü/
re-
> > presents the primeval variant (as the loanword entered the
language).
> >
> > Perhaps in former times it was iveg /'i-vaeg/, I don't know.
>
> hte matter seems to work very simple if the form in Hungarian was
> *uwegV.(V= "a" or "e")
> The Romanian development was :


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> 1)-reducing the geminate ( uw= uu=u),

This is Not true for Romanian : vaduwa was maintained
(See Old Romanian /v&duwa/ > v&duva)

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> 2) yotacising of "e" to "ie"

This is Not true either.
The transformation e>ye/ya is ended "End Of Roman Period"


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> 3) rendering of "ie" to "ia" due the "ã" in the next syllable

> *uwega > *uega > *uiegã > uiagã

Not applicable based on 1) and 2)

Marius