R: [gothic-l] Proto Germanic Vowels

[Giuseppe Pagliarulo]

Daweid melida:
>>    Now what can you tell me about æ:? Where does it come from, and
what does
>>it do in other languages?
>
>  æ: (not necessarily phonetically [æ:]) is reconstructed for that
vowel
>which is a: in West and North Germanic, and e: in Gothic.  That is,
in
>fact, almost all of the e:'s in Gothic (cf. mena "moon" with ON máni
>"moon"), and reflects PIE *e: (cf. Greek mên "month").
>
>  There remain, however, a few extra e:'s in Gothic which correspond
to e:
>in West and North Germanic; cf. Gothic her "here" and OE & ON hér.  I
do
>not know what the PIE origin of this vowel is, but it is in any case
>extraordinarily rare.
>


Nothing to add, except that this extra e: seems to be derived from
PGmc *e: < IE *e:i or,outside Gothic, from PGmc *ez -- cf. Go mizdo,
OE me'd.

Iosef Strawarila
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