138,726
edits
Naeng/Literature: Difference between revisions
m
→Sandhi
m (→Sandhi) |
m (→Sandhi) |
||
| Line 209: | Line 209: | ||
Old Windermere had a complex sandhi system (somewhere between Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit) which is no longer productive in Modern Windermere. | Old Windermere had a complex sandhi system (somewhere between Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit) which is no longer productive in Modern Windermere. | ||
* | *th + fric -> fric + t | ||
*thf -> ft, e.g. ''tăfi'' (laugh) -> ''tifti'' (mock) (Classical and Modern Wdm. ''dăfi'', ''difti'') | *jths -> st, as in ''sehf'' (go) -> *''thsehf'' -> ''stehf'' (to drive) (Modern ''binsteaf'' (energy), ''sămteaf'' (to energize)) | ||
**thf -> ft, e.g. ''tăfi'' (laugh) -> ''*tithfi'' -> ''tifti'' (mock) (Classical and Modern Wdm. ''dăfi'', ''difti'') | |||
Grassmann's law was productive in Old Windermere. When there were two aspirated consonants before a stressed vowel in a word, the first was deaspirated. | Grassmann's law was productive in Old Windermere. When there were two aspirated consonants before a stressed vowel in a word, the first was deaspirated. | ||