Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Loan word phonology: metathesis, epenthesis

epenthesis:

Knuth: k(uh)nuth
gnu: g(uh)nu
Dvora Alon wife of Yosef Alon: duhvora
Knoepfle: Kuhnoepfle

metathesis:

favre: farv


Many Sanskrit words went through process like these when they become part of Telugu, Hindi, Kannada vocabularies.





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