From: andythewiros
Message: 66794
Date: 2010-10-23
>Oh right. Ah well.
> At 1:29:50 PM on Saturday, October 23, 2010, andythewiros
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> > <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
>
> >> From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@>
> >> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> >> Sent: Sat, October 23, 2010 12:39:04 AM
> >> Subject: [tied] Optional Soundlaws (was: IE *aidh- >
> >> *aus-tr- 'hot, warm (wind)')
>
> [...]
>
> >> 1) The Modern English 3-way split of the reflex of OE o:,
> >> e.g. Modern English _blood_, _good_ and _mood_.
>
> [...]
>
> > Is this English 3-way development of OE *o: before /d/
> > possibly due to the preceding consonant?
>
> > I.e. after a labial it becomes /u:/ (<mood>, <food>),
> > after /l/ it becomes /V/ (<blood>, <flood>), and after
> > other consonants before /d/ it becomes /U/ (<good>,
> > <hood>)?
>
> <Rood> has /u:/. So has <brood>.
>
> Brian
>