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LAURENT SAGART

SC: ui; KHW: -ü:

SC: -ue;

SC: -0: KHW: -u: SC: -00:

Ek'ü2 ‘he';

'female' but also

yül 'rain'

hül 'go' ✯ nül

sül 'book' and

lu4 'road'; pul 'cloth' tyu3 'ancestor' but also ku3 'old' and

ful father*

In addition to this we find that words classified in the Sung dynasty rhyme-book Yun Jing # as belonging to the 1st division of the Xiao rhyme-group have merged in SC with those /-o/ finals that are the result of the lowering of /-00/, as detailed above. In KHW, the same words have merged instead into the lax /-aw/ final, in which they coexist with words from the Liu rhyme-group, which have SC final /-au. Hence the correspondence:

SC: -0:

SC: -au:

Thus, KHW

'clown', and 'save' etc.

KHW: -aw:

kaw? 'high'; # ty'aw3 'grass' lawi 'old' but

maw4 'hat';

also ty'aw3 'clown' and

kawl 'save'

ty'aw3 'grass' is homophonous with #ty'aw3 kawl 'high' is homophonous with kawl

Apart from those SC /ui/ finals that were derived from an earlier /-ue/ after certain initials as detailed above, the /-ui/ final of SC also includes words classified in the Sung rhyme- tables as belonging to the labialized finals of the Zhi it & and Xie rhyme-groups. In KHW, these Zhi and Xie rhyme group words appear with the final /-oy/, together with words with non-guttural initials from the non labialized 1st division of the Xie rhyme-group. These non labialized Xie rhyme group words with non guttural initials in SC have the final /-oi. Hence the correspondence:

SC: -ui; SC: -oi;

KHW: -oy:

soyl 'tax'; # tyoyl 'drunk'; # toyl 'pair' but also ty'oyl 'veget- able'

Thus, some words with the SC final /-ui/ and some with the final /-oi/ have merged into the KHW final /-oy/. I can only