precisely!
In all seriousness: the reason moose does not umlaut is that it was borrowed from Algonquian "moos" during the Modern English period, over a thousand years after the sound change that produced umlaut.
There have been pre-Old English sound changes that have been generalized to other words, but that's typically Indo European ablaut (e.g. sing -> sang -> sung) which has spread to verbs like sneak and dive.
Dana Fried
npub1s5…effjs
2024-11-09 19:00:48 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…9d8x
Author Public Key
npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjsSeen on
wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2024-11-09 19:00:48 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "afb43353ad47263afbbbdfe6b8c45322ee0b3ab4a507dccbfdff6c264e60f0ff",
"pubkey": "8533102c8844e996a6e076a661a2d4573e59844aacd5a5454d2615ca4051769e",
"created_at": 1731178848,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"p",
"bd98b1a8f5bb3fefa53cb91d9d1fdb4df38574c5197861a73ac6ddfd2dfc5a02"
],
[
"e",
"6c7526dfa929efdb6dd237b0ddd8b540dcf350e36aaa8f87735801602a79a6ea",
"",
"root",
"8533102c8844e996a6e076a661a2d4573e59844aacd5a5454d2615ca4051769e"
],
[
"e",
"c4e8784a3e16fd29f2d9969f5668b36a31e516c8f2883c843b40f0a4cf15304d",
"",
"reply",
"bd98b1a8f5bb3fefa53cb91d9d1fdb4df38574c5197861a73ac6ddfd2dfc5a02"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/@tess/113454537023976452",
"web"
],
[
"p",
"8533102c8844e996a6e076a661a2d4573e59844aacd5a5454d2615ca4051769e"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/tess/statuses/113454537023976452",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mastodon.social/users/tess/statuses/113454537023976452",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "precisely!\n\nIn all seriousness: the reason moose does not umlaut is that it was borrowed from Algonquian \"moos\" during the Modern English period, over a thousand years after the sound change that produced umlaut.\n\nThere have been pre-Old English sound changes that have been generalized to other words, but that's typically Indo European ablaut (e.g. sing -\u003e sang -\u003e sung) which has spread to verbs like sneak and dive.",
"sig": "e27843b5baa6a54dab32b85a6a84542a49e013e90e78084597c388c7271d73bb3db855bfda7e25683fd8a26fbc4abfada4cd73cd40950fad59630bb0fe2c467a"
}