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It discusses another example of how Old Frisian /a:/ from Germanic */ai/ was mistaken as OFris /a:/ from Gmc */au/. Earlier examples already spotted include Du moot "slice of fish", roop "rope", toon 'toe'.

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The article shows that new discoveries are still to be made in a field that seems well trodden.

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This page is a summary of: Middle Dutch loosten 'Redeem', NOWELE North-Western European Language Evolution, November 1997, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/nowele.31-32.04bre.
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