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Comment Post #280731 I didn't use a tie bar. Maybe there's a display issue on your side? /tsj/ and /tʃ/ are distinct phonemes in Old French, so this isn't a matter of notation
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #280731 I'm not saying that the phoneme /tʃ/ didn't become /ʃ/, I'm saying that the word "caution" would have been pronounced with /tsj/, which developed to /sj/ in later French. You can look at the same page for the source. (Actually, the page is ambiguous on whether it's a real /tsj/ or just /ts/ with pala...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #280731 Old French would have had /tsj/ (later /sj/), not /tʃ/ (later /ʃ/)
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #279731 I don't think this really answers the question. Latin ad-, as a prefix, is adverbial in sense, even though ad is a preposition
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #279462 The same sound change happened in Japanese (partially)
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #279341 @Conrado You could read it as "he (=God) told you" or "he (=someone) told you." The latter possibility could be idiomatically translated into English (or Spanish, apparently) as "it has been told to you," but the word is in active voice (*hif'il* form)
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #279341 הִגִּיד is not passive. הֻגַּד is passive. הֻגֵּד הֻגַּד לִי (Ruth 2:11) means "it has been told to me," but מִי הִגִּיד לְךָ (Genesis 3:11) means "who told you." Semantically הִגִּיד could be passive, but morphologically it isn't, so translating "as literally as possible" as passive is wrong
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #278906 There's no reason to posit a meaning for a root unless it shows up in some derived word. So what derived words offer this meaning for קנז? As asked in the question: "and if it's "unused", how does one determine its meaning?"
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #278906 So what derived meanings of קנז are there that mean hunt?
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over 3 years ago
Edit Post #278885 Post edited over 3 years ago
Comment Post #278875 I don't speak Spanish well enough to be sure, but it looks to me like "it has been declared... it has been told." Maybe you're having trouble because you expected "he has declared... he has told" instead?
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over 3 years ago
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Edit Post #278125 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: Why is “timbre” pronounced “tamber”?
French nasalized vowels were lowered from their original quality (i.e. in, im are pronounced [ɛ̃æ̃ɑ̃] instead of [ĩ]). In older borrowings (e.g. simple) the original close vowel is retained in pronunciation, but more recent words of French origin are borrowed from the contemporary pronunciation afte...
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over 3 years ago
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Answer A: How do I pronounce historical French correctly from times when the language was in transition?
This are a lot of details as to how French was pronounced, so I'll focus on just this question: >When looking at a song (or poem) and deciding on pronunciations, what internal or external clues can I rely on? The most important thing to know is if the orthography is modernized or not. If the or...
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over 3 years ago
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helpful over 3 years ago