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Word Analysis (Fach) / Vowel lengthening and shortening (Lektion)
- ME: Lengthening of stressed short vowels OPEN SYLLABLE LENGTHENING Mainly occured with non-high vowels (a,e,o) OE ME nama /a/ > name /a:/ ‘name’ acer /a/ > aker /a:/ ‘field’ etan /e/ > ete /e:/ `eat‘ ofer /ɔ / > over /ɔ :/ ‘over’
- ME: Shortening of stressed long vowels a) in CLOSED SYLLABLES less regular then OSL, mostly before consonant clusters OE ME cépte /e:/ > cept /e/ ‘kept’ slépte /e:/ > slept /e/ ‘sleep’ b) in first syllable of a trisyllabic word ('trysillabic laxing') OE ME háligdag /a:/ > halidai /a/ ‘holiday’ súþ /u:/ > sutherne /u/ ‘southern’
- ENHG: Lengthening of stressed short vowels Occured in OPEN SYLLABLES, Dehung in off. Tonsible (all short vowels) MHG ENHG name /a/ > name /a:/ ‘name’ geben e/ > geben /e:/ ‘give’ siben /i/ > sieben /i:/ `seven‘ tugent /u/ > tugend /u:/ ‘virtue’
- ENHG: Shortening of stressed long vowels Occured in CLOSED SYLLABLES Less regularly then 'Dehnung in offener Tonsilbe' mostly before consonant clusters MHG ENHG dâhte /a:/ > dachte /a/ ‘(I) thought’ lîht /i:/ > licht /i/ ‘light’
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