[gothic-l] Gothic Dipthongs

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My private opinion based on comparison 
of some Gothic words with Old Russian 
cognates is that:


‘ai’ might be pronounced rather like ä/æ 
(example: “Airils” - “Yarilo”) 
and ‘iu’ was pronounced rather like ü/œ 
(example: “þiuda” - “Tchüd”).<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

But I have to stress that my statement 
is contrary to the common knowledge that 
the Gothic language had no umlauts !!!

 

Vladimir

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Le Bateman [mailto:LeBateman at NetZero.Net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:55 AM
To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [gothic-l] Gothic Dipthongs


Are the Diphthongs ai and iu pronounced like long e or ey. in they. Is the
diphthong. ui also pronounced  the same as long e
airth eerth etc... OE Þeoden, Theyoden o as in not.  Þuiden
Le



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