Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Submitted by AutoModerator t3_10l0kx9 on January 25, 2023 at 3:00 PM in askscience 136 comments 743
no-recognition-1616 t1_j5vdfrt wrote on January 25, 2023 at 8:48 PM Linguistics: What is the law behind the Ablaut pattern? Is there an onomatopoeic reason behind the Germanic pattern I-O or I-A, which explains that specific order in pair of words such as chit-chat, clip-clap, tic-tac, tip-top, and so on? Permalink 6
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