From: Eric Christopherson (raccoon@elknet.net)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 09:35:20 EST
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:27:09AM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Second Declension
> > S P
> > Nom -Ă¹s --*
> > Gen --* -Ă³i
> > Acc -Ă¹ -os
> > *umlaut in stem
>
> Correction, this isn't umlaut, but rather a raising of the stem vowel, a
> -> è -> e -> i; Ă² -> o -> u, for instance: RomĂ¡nĂ¹s, pl. RomĂªn
That'd technically be ablaut. (As you seem to already know, umlaut involves
a change of a vowel conditioned by the presence of another vowel; ablaut
involves a change of a vowel conditioned by morphology.)
-- Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo
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