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diately shows that it is related by alternation to [y, g]; [u]
can be identified phonemically with [v] in an autonomous
analysis, but it is also related by alternation to [y, g] and
also to [b].
A survey will now be given of the more commonly found
types of alternation.
3. Fricative Alternating with Stop before Suffix -t(e)
Cases like [ko:yo]—[kDgda] (past part. [kDgt]) exhibit
both an alternation [y] ~ [g] and an alternation long vowel ~
short vowel. The two phenomena are apparently related:
in the adjective forms [kb:’y] ‘wise’—neut. [kb:’yt], plur.
[kb:ya], we find neither quantity shift nor consonant alterna-
tion.
Alternations as exemplified by the verb koge seem to occur
in all verbs (taking the suffixes in question) which end in [y]
when no suffix is added to the stem (cp. bage, bruge, koge, lcege,
sige, sluge, smage, sfioge, sege, agé). Moreover, they are observed
if one compares certain verbs or adjectives with related nouns
derived by means of a suffix -t or with verbs derived by a similar
suffix (jage~jagt, klog~khgt, svige(fuld) ~svigte, váge~vagt).
The invariance exemplified by the adj. klog is found with
most adjectives ending in [y] (cp. klog, klæg, lceg, myg, sfiag,
svag, trœg, vag, veg). Possible exceptions are some adjectives
with a narrow vowel, lig, rig, slig, syg, but some of these can
also be (and probably mostly are) pronounced without modi-
fication: [sy:’(y)t] rather than [sygt], etc.
If we turn now to verbs and adjectives whose stem ends in
[ð] (phonetically), the picture is different.
The verbs with a long vowel in forms without the suffix
-t{e) may or may not exhibit a short vowel before the suffixes,
cp. [e:ða] ‘eat’—past part. [et] (similarly bide, bryde, byde,
flyde, forlade, fortryde, grœde, gyde, lide, lyde, mode, nyde, skide,
skyde, slide, smide, stride, svede, trœde; some of these verbs have
ablaut shift) vs. [kle:ða] ‘dress’—[kle:’t] (similarly bede, brede,
fode, lede, node, rede, sprede, stede).
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