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I-mutation was a series of changes to initial vowels which took place when there was a high front vowel, usually [i] (but also , [ɪ] or [j]) in the following syllable (usually in an inflectional suffix). The presence of the high front vowel in the following syllable caused lower and back vowels in the preceeding syllable to move higher in ...
24. Juli 2021 · What is i-mutation? I-mutation is a regular change in the vowels stems of words under certain circumstances, surviving in modern English is such word-pairs as "full" and "fill", "blood" and "bleed", "mouse" and "mice".
Development of Old English vowels under i-mutation. Like most other Germanic languages, Old English underwent a process known as i-mutation or i-umlaut. This involved the fronting or raising of vowels under the influence of /i(ː)/ or /j/ in the following syllable.
Late Old English (anglian), C. 1000Middle English Pronunciation, C. 1400Modern English Spelling, C. 1500Early Modern English Pronunciation, C.a; æ; ea; ā+CC; often ǣ+CC,ēa+CC; occ./a/a/a/a; æ; ea; ā+CC; often ǣ+CC,ēa+CC; occ.(leng.) /aː/ [æː]aCV/ɛː/e; eo; occ. y; ē+CC; ēo+CC; occ./e/e/ɛ/e; eo; occ. y; ē+CC; ēo+CC; occ./e/(+r) ar/ar/i – mutation is a conditional. sound change caused by the prehistorical presence of the /i/ sound the ends of words. – mutation is a confusing name because the /i/ sound which caused the sound change is no longer there.
I-mutation took place separately in the various Germanic languages from around 450 or 500 CE in the North Sea area and affected all the early languages, except for Gothic. It seems to have taken effect earliest and most completely in Old English and Old Norse.
Old English – i-mutation. i-umlaut - Old English vowels harmonised to an /i/ or /j/ following them in the same word. This caused all back vowels to front and all short front vowels (except /i/) and diphthongs. to raise when an /i/ or /j/ followed in the next syllable. This can be represented as follows:
25. Okt. 2017 · I-mutation is caused by the very human habit of laziness: taking the shortest distance between two points. The plural of man in ancient West Germanic, the ancestor of Old English, used to be a word something like *manniz .
