foti

This may be looked upon as a “lucky accident, ” for if foti had become fote, fot before the - i had had the chance to exert a retroactive influence on the o, there would have been no difference between the singular and the plural.

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The English phonetic laws involved in the rise of the words foot, feet, mouse and mice from their early West-Germanic prototypes fot, foti, mus, musi6 may be briefly summarized as follows: 3

Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921

In foti “feet” the long o was colored by the following i to long ö, that is, o kept its lip-rounded quality and its middle height of tongue position but anticipated the front tongue position of the i; ö is the resulting compromise.

Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921

It is found also in the dative singular (fet), for it too goes back to an older foti.

Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921

D. fet (older foti) fotum could not long stand unmodified.

Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921

The alternation of fot: foti, transitionally fot: föti, föte, föt, now appears as fot: fet.

Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921

The change of foti to föti antedated that of föti to föte, föt.

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Re: Errors compiling by rocky58 on: Jan 16 2007 rocky58 rocco foti

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Re: Errors compiling by rocky58 on: Jan 16 2007 rocky58 rocco foti

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Re: Errors compiling by rocky58 on: Jan 16 2007 rocky58 rocco foti

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