From: Alexandru Moeller
Message: 58007
Date: 2008-04-25
>I just about the vocal harmony in Hungarian. Can it be the "e" is the
>
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> From: "tolgs001" <george_st@... <mailto:george_st%40gmx.net>>
>
> >What the heck do you wanna tell me here? I haven't dealt with your
> >/uj&/ obsession as yet. And I even don't intend to do that, for your
> >/uj&/ has nothing to do with the discussion üveg-(u)iagä. The only
> >thing that ->indeed<- would fit is the fact that /uj&/ somewhat resembles
> >the beginning of /ujag&/ provided that /uj&/ is pronounced /u-j&/. But,
> >if the stress falls upon /u/ then there's a start(l)ing difference: in
> >/ujag&/ the stress falls on the second syllable.
> >George
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> So far nobody has provided an explanation for Hungarian üveg having ü,
> and apaka: or Ossetic (?) avg don't obviously.
> Why should it have ü starting with a ?
>
> The idea that the root is uj- looks nice.
> uj fused into ü
> when the suffix -eg is attached, the glide is -v- because ü is a rounded
> vowel,
> this really makes sense.
>
> Arnaud
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