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Re: [romanceconlang] Update in Román

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:27:09AM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Second Declension
> >      S     P
> > Nom  -ùs   --*
> > Gen  --*   -ói
> > Acc  -ù    -os
> > *umlaut in stem
> 
> Correction, this isn't umlaut, but rather a raising of the stem vowel, a
> -> è -> e -> i; ò -> o -> u, for instance: Románùs, pl. Romên

That'd technically be ablaut. (As you seem to already know, umlaut involves
a change of a vowel conditioned by the presence of another vowel; ablaut
involves a change of a vowel conditioned by morphology.)

-- 
Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo