Re: ...uveg <-> uiag&...

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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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> I just about the vocal harmony in Hungarian. Can it be the "e" is the
> one which triggered the change? *uweg > *euweg > üveg?
>
> Alex
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I think that only i or yod triggered umlaut in Western Finno-Permic
and Hungarian.
Khant Mans does not display umlaut.

I have no example of e-umlaut
so I prefer *ujeg as preform.

Arnaud