Re: Gothic Vowels
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 11, 2004, 12:33 |
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At 03:39 11.1.2004, Thomas Leigh wrote:
>As presented in Wright's grammar -- I'm looking at it now -- the
>Gothic vowels (using a circumflex in place of Wright's macron)
>and diphthongs are as follows, following §12:
What basis is there *really* for supposing the
ai ái aí and au áu aú distinction apart from
etymology? AFAIK there is no internal evidence
for any actually diphthongal ái or áu in 4th-6th
century Gothic, like occasional misspellings
with <aj> or <aw>. As for length it is of course
not at all expressed in Gothic orthography, but
must be inferred from etymology.
/BP 8^)
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