On 18/12/2003 05:33, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
On 12/18/03 06:54, Peter Kirk wrote:
You will find that the spellings "millÃ" (19,600 Google matches) and
"milli" (709,000 matches, but not all are Turkish) are
interchangeable, but "millÄ" is rare (52 matches) and so probably an
error.
Wouldn't "?millÄ" be a violation of Turkish vowel-harmony rules?
~mark
Yes, but these rules apply strictly only to suffixes. Most words of
Turkic origin also follow them internally, but loan words do not.
"MillÃ" is a loan word from Arabic and so not bound by the vowel harmony
rules. But Arabic does not have the dotless i sound and so both i's must
be dotted. As the latter corresponds to a long Arabic vowel it is often
written with a circumflex. This also serves to distinguish this word
from the noun "mil" (3 meanings: pivot; silt; mile) with the adjectival
suffix "-li" (not "-lÄ" here because of vowel harmony); but "mil" +
"-li" is rare and the spelling "milli" is much more commonly a variant
of "millÃ".
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