From: tgpedersen
Message: 63813
Date: 2009-04-15
>Yes.
> The rules of vowel harmony are triggered by the first vowel. There
> is no backwards vowel harmony.
>
> I think you would like to make the case that u/y umlaut is rare and
> possibly predates FU in Northern Europe.
> I can't think of anotherMy little Estonian-Danish dictionary says
> example at a beginning of a word. There aren't that many words
> that begin with /y/ in Finnish /ü/ in Estonian anyway.
> So what's needed is evidence. If it were easy to come by theTorsten
> authors of etymological dictionaries could take a less conservative
> stance in classifying the 5 words you identified. None seem to
> have a clear
> etymology.
>
> Peter P
>