Re: What is umlaut?

aha now i get it (oh and with the u i was thinking of german i just was writing in a hurry and didn't catch the typo)

thanks
Jarrod
Daniel Prohaska <daniel@...> wrote:

<is i-umlaut the same as i -mutation?

<an example from old english being the verb cuman

<cume

<cymst

<cym�
<it seems to me that in old norse it is only a half step. instead of u -y it is u - �.

<but this is only uneducated speculation.

<Jarrod

Yes, i-umlaut and i-mutation are two different terms for the same thing.

The quality of the vowel has nothing to do with the way it is spelt. I can�t remember ever seeing � in Old Norse.

As far as conventional reconstructions are concerned Old English and Old Norse <y> and German <�> are/were vowels of similar, if not the same pronunciation.

There is no �half-step� involved.

Dan

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