Why isn't the diphthong "ei" actually written "ai"?
It sounds more like AI
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same meaning?
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What are you writing?
It does not mean hello or good day but the spelling of the one word
Would French or Spanish make more sense?
Hello, I'm m/19 and I'm thinking about whether I'd rather learn French or Spanish because I like both languages better. I learned Italian for a few years at school, but I've forgotten it and I don't see any reason to learn Italian. But French and Spanish would be more interesting for me because I can…
Which word do you currently use most often?
What words do you theoretically use to annoy others?
Which word is grammatically correct?
It's about this sentence: "this is about the prototype and the improvement of *its / this / this*" Everything sounds wrong to me.
In the train of mhd. diphthonging long vowels (“min hus is diutsch“) today’s [ai] has also emerged from a long time [i:] about [ei ]. Where the final development of [ei] to [ai] was delayed, the writing “ei” has unfortunately become part of the general German writing – a bright [a] is the beginning sound of today’s diphthong, except in Deutshland’s high north still not The one in the Mhd. before the mhd. Diphthonging existing [ei, ai, au ] but were pushed further in the Upper German to [oa] and [a:] (cf. broad > broat, bra:t and running, tree > la:fn, Ba:m)
In the middle high Germans, was still spoken /industrial/. The sound has changed, not the Orthography. is found only in a few words, e.g. Rye.
There is also ai in the middle-high German, for example in “vain” or “swaige”
Even if: I don’t see the problem?
In the middle high German there were more diptonge than in the antiquity German, which is why I wonder why one is not simply changed from ei to ai. There was no uniform spelling for a long time
Because local language variants express these diphthons differently!
Where’s another word?
For example, in the Viennese dialect, but often as a pronunciation for “eu” but “Eier” and other terms just as written!
No.
The diptong eu exists in German. Don’t.