07-01-2020, 05:53 PM
We might have better chances of finding out where the diphthong in geis would become a monophthong. It is likely that maps of such phenomena exist.
(For example my own dialect of Dutch, I say gèèt instead of standard Dutch geit. This happens in all words with "ei", so it's a rule that can be studied by linguists)
For milch, I have noticed that a common way of writing it is "milich". Probably the omission of L is especially unlikely in these regions. When I get home I'll check the corpus to see if milich belongs to a specific region.
(For example my own dialect of Dutch, I say gèèt instead of standard Dutch geit. This happens in all words with "ei", so it's a rule that can be studied by linguists)
For milch, I have noticed that a common way of writing it is "milich". Probably the omission of L is especially unlikely in these regions. When I get home I'll check the corpus to see if milich belongs to a specific region.