04-11-2022, 12:22 AM
The question of why QOKEEDY might cycle through variations is a bit like Epicurus’ swerve: an atom just gets it in its mind to swerve and suddenly there’s a universe. Minimum deviation.
The reason here seem to be that [y] is a ‘soft’ ending, being a vowel, (or vowelish) and a consonant is a more emphatic ending.
The hard ending then provokes a vowel at the vord break: [n] is followed by [o] and the prefix [ol] appears.
The usual pattern of CV is reversed at both ends.
In the process, the stem vowel [ee] hardens to [a] in sympathy with the final emphatic consonant and the [q] in the prefix (being quite strictly initial) softens into [l] and its group of consonants. These are harder than [y] but softer than [q].
The reason for the ‘swerve’ then would be a preferred euphony.
The reason here seem to be that [y] is a ‘soft’ ending, being a vowel, (or vowelish) and a consonant is a more emphatic ending.
The hard ending then provokes a vowel at the vord break: [n] is followed by [o] and the prefix [ol] appears.
The usual pattern of CV is reversed at both ends.
In the process, the stem vowel [ee] hardens to [a] in sympathy with the final emphatic consonant and the [q] in the prefix (being quite strictly initial) softens into [l] and its group of consonants. These are harder than [y] but softer than [q].
The reason for the ‘swerve’ then would be a preferred euphony.