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Old Windermere had a complex sandhi system (somewhere between Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit) which was no longer productive in Classical Windermere; most notably it affected plurals and verb forms, making them less predictable. | Old Windermere had a complex sandhi system (somewhere between Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit) which was no longer productive in Classical Windermere; most notably it affected plurals and verb forms, making them less predictable. | ||
* | *fth, fch > -pt-, -pc- | ||
*th + fric -> fric + t | *th + fric -> fric + t | ||
**ths -> st, as in ''sehf'' 'go' -> *''thsehf'' -> ''stehf'' 'to drive' (Modern ''binsteaf'' 'energy', ''sămteaf'' 'to energize') | **ths -> st, as in ''sehf'' 'go' -> *''thsehf'' -> ''stehf'' 'to drive' (Modern ''binsteaf'' 'energy', ''sămteaf'' 'to energize') |
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