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SUMMARY
This article examines the history of the Old Icelandic front mid vowel /0/, aní*
considers its fate in the history of Icelandic. In most cases this vowel merges with the
originally back and rounded /q/. Thus the modem Icelandic reflex of OI spkkva has
the same vowel as that of hgggva, both with the MI phoneme ö [œ], usually classified
as a front rounded low mid vowel. In a number of cases, however, the old /0/ waS
delabialised and has the MI refiex /e/ ([e]), as in kemur (< OI kpmr).
After reviewing former attempts at accounting for the development of the old
/0/ (e.g. Noreen 1970 (1923), Leijström 1934, Sveinn Bergsveinsson 1955, Hreino
Benediktsson 1959, Stefán Karlsson 1981) the article moves on to suggest that the fate