‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’<i>Y</i>in Medieval Welsh Orthography: Caligula versus Teilo

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A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is use for both /ǝ/ and retracted high vowel /ɨ(:)/. This double was almost universally adopted by c. 1330, when a grammarian labelled /ɨ/ as ‘dark y’ ‘clear illustrated them with polysyllables such ystyr /ˈǝstɨr/ ‘meaning’, in which value predictable from position word. At that time three-way system /i(:)/, ‘dark’ , ‘clear’ two centuries old, being first attested Braint Teilo (‘The Privilege St Teilo’), 1130. Yet ‘Teilo’ rarely before 1300; instead all three phonemes might be represented , commonly 1100, or ; used and/or /ɨ(:)/, had sometimes occurred Old well. article argues one reason, apart scribal conservatism, delay adopting its failure distinguish proclitics y ‘the’ ‘his/her’ ‘to’. For this ultimately abortive ‘Caligula’ (c. 1250) offered solution.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Transactions of the Philological Society

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['0079-1636', '1467-968X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968x.12205