From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 67121
Date: 2011-01-18
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:In OHG? Who knows? Not that it matters much if the first
>>
>> 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:
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>> >>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
>> >>> <bm.brian@> wrote:
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>> >>>> At 4:49:33 AM on Tuesday, January 11, 2011, Torsten
>> >>>> wrote:
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>> >> [...]
>>
>> >>>>> 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.).
> The -en is -ən.