Re: UAX #29 beta update (text breaks): apostrophe ./. H

From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 10:31:37 CST

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Like German "heute" (="today") where the "eu" sounds like the "oy" in Spanish "hoy"?
hui=hoy=heu(te)... Neat!

markus

Michael Everson wrote:
> At 23:07 +0100 2003-10-27, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>> The historic French word "hui" is now completely obsoleted, and commonly
>> found only in the single expression "aujourd'hui", considered now as a
>> single word (so in that case the break will not occur, and you will
>> typically not find the word "hui" in a modern French dictionnary).
>
> "Hui" < "hodie" 'today'. Cf. Spanish "hoy".

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