Re: How to pronounce the letter "H"

Op 21/06/2025 om 21:25 schreef Christian Weisgerber:

On 2025-06-16, guido wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> wrote:
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    /ˈaka/ > /ˈatʃa/ > /ˈatʃə/ > /aʃə/ > /aʃ/
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Presumably Middle English picked up /ˈatʃə/ as /ˈaːtʃə/ and then
you have loss of final schwa and the Great Vowel Shift > /eɪtʃ/.

I find it more likely that the palatisation of k accompanied the
"schwa-ing" of final a.

Why?
/ka/ shifted to /tʃV/ throughout, no matter whether the eventual
outcome of the vowel was /a/, /ɛ/, /jɛ/, /e/, /ə/, or by way of
monophthongization /o/, or whatever.  In fact, it must have happened
early as indicated by causa > chose, which palatalized before Latin
au monophthongized--not to be confused with the later development
of /aɫ/ > /aw/ > /o/, etc.; caulis > *chol > chou even combines both
monophthongizations.
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You're right indeed.
(Yet the final schwa-ing would hardly be posterior to the palatalisation afaic.)
--
guido wugi