[gothic-l] Proto Germanic Vowels

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In a message dated 9/1/00 9:19:11 AM, you wrote:

<<Iusteinus melida:


<<PGmc      Gothic

a           a

e           i

i           i

o           u

u           u

a:          a(:)

e:          e:

i:          ei

o:          o:

u:          u(:)

ai          a'i

au          a'u

eu          iu>>



That's OK, I think, but don't forget PGmc æ: > Go e. >>


About this æ: I know nothing, but Daweid did point out to me that I omitted 
Proto-Germanic *iu > Gothic iu. This is, as he himself said to me, hardly an 
ommission since it isn't actually a CHANGE, but seeing as I included other 
soundchanges that weren't changes it seems only fair to mention it.
    Apparently this pgmc. *iu was a umlaut varient of *eu (I was quite 
surprised that there were umlauts happening that far back!), as an example: 
*theudon > Got. thiuda NHG. Diet-, but *thiudiskaz > Got. thiudisks, NHG. 
Deutsch.
    Now what can you tell me about æ:? Where does it come from, and what does 
it do in other languages?

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