Re: Tudrus

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 67110
Date: 2011-01-17

At 4:07:27 AM on Monday, January 17, 2011, Torsten wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>> At 4:41:13 AM on Sunday, January 16, 2011, Torsten wrote:

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
>>> <bm.brian@> wrote:

>>>> At 4:49:33 AM on Tuesday, January 11, 2011, Torsten
>>>> wrote:

>> [...]

>>>>> Still, the Dutch (and LG, 'dreiht' ibd.) -i needs an
>>>>> explanation.

>>>> You mean in <draai->? It's simply a different way of
>>>> breaking the original hiatus, parallel to the OHG
>>>> variant <drājan>.

>>> That's your proposal? I don't think so, *-o-a- to *-oya-
>>> is not a natural phonetic development.

>> Nor did I suggest it. The hiatus in question is the one in
>> <drāan>.

> That doesn't make any it better. *-a-a- to *-aya- is not a
> natural phonetic development.

It does if at least one of the pair is not a back vowel, but
rather in the [a] ~ [æ] range. As was evidently the case in
OHG (<draen>, <drajan>, <drajen>, etc.).

Brian