Etymological and Phonetic Correspondences of the word "CHIEF"



Posted: Monday, November 02, 2009

by
Ivan Petryshyn

The etymology of the English word "chief" has its very interesting correspondences in other E-U Languages:

E.: CHIEF / CHI:F/

IT.: CIUFFO /' CHYUF:O/

UKR.: / CHOUB/

BAT- / CHOU'V-ATY/

RUSS.: /' CHOUYAT'/

FR.: CHEVAL/ SHE'VAL'/

GYPSY:CHAVALE./ CHA'VALE/

IT.: CAVALLO / KA'VAL': O/

The most important regulations for the phonological 'doublets' for the word CHIEF revel the following regulations:

1. CH=SH/K;

2. I: = E/OU - the strong positioned A;

3. palatalization under the influence of I:, or iotizing YU; semi-palatalization/adaptive palatalization under the influence of E before the initial SH/ A before CH;

4. lack of palatalization after K+A;

5. F=B=V=Y(a).

The phonetic correspondences regulations of the above given examples stand the critics for the following reasons:

1/ the strict and consecutive correspondence of the following the CH/SH palatalization: I:, E, YU /iotizing/;

2/ OU preceeding B/V/Y;

3/ the absence of the palatalization in CH_V/K_V consonant interdepended chains, where the general shwa A is used;

4/ the interchangeability of F-V;

5/ the evolution of the K> SH> CH

A special attention is to be given to

*UKR: /DZYOB/

*POL.: DZIO'B

* IT.: BECCO /'BEK:O/

* EN.: BEAK /BI:K/

Ivan Petryshyn

Ivan Petryshyn - Phonological and Linguistic Research, teaching, methodology of foreign languages, the experience and excellent response in translating and interpreting, native or near-native communication skills in the languages known (Italian, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian), good conversational knowledge of German, French and some Spanish, author, poet (www.gather.com, www.poetichouse.com /ivano/, also-Facebook.

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