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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Älvard J. te Kraamlep <kraamlep@z...> wrote: > Sorry for delay... > > > Muke wrote: > <snip> > << > > The /a/ would change too, to /o/, giving */oe/. As I've mentioned, I have > reasons to avoid that as a diphthong. But I suppose /9/, already present due > to u-umlaut of stressed /e/, could also come in as a development of /ai/ > > /oi/ > /oe/. Is /9/ is valid development of the /oe/ diphthong? I don't want > to just assume that, despite appearances. The other alternative, I think, is > /o:/. This change ([oi] > [9]) is believed to have occurred in Boiotian Greek, along with the more familiar [u] > [y] (hence the speeling /u/ for [y] and /ou/ for [u:] in Attic Greek). Since Boiotian Greek appears to be the first Greek dialect to monophtongize its diphthongs, th the change seems perfectly plausible. > > So aesthetic matters come into play. Which will feel better, that the word > for 1 is _oyns_, _oens_ or _óns_? 11: _oylf_, _oelf_, _ólf_? "My": _moyn_, > _moen_, _món_? "Oak": _oyscu_, _oescu_, _óscu_? "Very": _soy_, _soe_, _só_? > What looks right for a Med. language? Hmmm. > > Remembering that all the "oe"s above are actually oe-lig (curse you, email > encoding glitches), I'm inclining slightly towards the _oe_ solution, i.e. > that *both* vowels shifted, but that conflicts with what I did with /au/ and > /eu/ (to /ou/ and /au/ respectively). /ei/ is rare enough in Gmc that I can > probably just shift it to /a:/, so I'll worry about that later. > > Any comments gratefully received. > > Jamets > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Älvard J. te Kraamlep Vorquichtat, Binertglobakläi Jameld Zolidaton > kraamlep@z... BJZ Wabplaz: http://www.zolid.com/zm > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --