Re: Middle Welsh (was Cein)

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:27:07 +0000 kam@CARROT.CLARA.NET writes:
> Essentially the same construction is used in Arabic (Dar es Salaam)
> and
> Hebrew (Rosh ha-Shannah) also with the original case endings now
> lost.
-

I don't know about Arabic (hopefully i'll find out when i take it next
semester, though) but Hebrew does have some changes in the words in this
kind of construction.

for example:
Final [-i:m] become [-ej]
Final [-a:] becomes [-at]
Many times vowels will become 'shorter', for instance [a:] to [@], or
[o:] to [ultrashort o].
Final [E] becomes [e] (i think, unless it's the other way around)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "sleep, like a fog, blew over him." ~ _gilgamesh_