Re: Quick sound change plot
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Sunday, June 16, 2002, 18:52 |
|---|
At 18:52 2002-06-11 -0400, Christopher B Wright wrote:
>Another question so soon. I'm a leech. I'm a pitiful, annoying sanguivore
>that just won't die.
>
>Anyway, does anyone know of a program that could plot possible outcomes
>of a given word using pre-assigned rules about sound changes? I'm not
>talking about something that will give the same changes to a bunch of
>words, but one that would give many changes to the same word.
>
>For instance, "for" would become por, vor, fol, vol, pur, etc.
>
>If nobody knows, I'll just do it the current newfangled way.
Please let us know what you come up with. I've sometimes wished for a
program to do reverse sound changes, i.e. coming up with different possible
ancestral forms of a given word.
/BP 8^)>
--
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.net (delete X)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__
A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \
__ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / /
\ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / /
/ / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / /
/ /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ /
/_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\
Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun
~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~
|| Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! ||
"A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)
Reply