[152] For the difference between these two sounds, see Sweet: “Handbook of Phonetics,” § 14, p. 9.
[153] “Grundzüge d. Lautphysiologie,” p. 46 (1876).
[154] “Lectures,” ii. p. 133.
[155] “Grundzüge d. Physiologie u. Systematik d. Sprachlaute,” p. 16 (1856).
[156] “Wiener Sitzungsberichte,” lii. 2, pp. 623 sq.
[157] “Grundzüge der Lautphysiologie,” p. 88 (1876).
[158] Sievers, loc. cit. p. 50.
[159] Haldeman in the “Proceedings of the American Oriental Society,” 1874, p. xlv. According to Professor Rhys the Welsh ll has resulted from the meeting of two l’s, each sounded independently up to the ninth century. Like the Welsh pronunciation of dd, the pronunciation of ll may have been originally borrowed from English.
[160] Mr. Sweet has proved that the pronunciation of these two Anglo-Saxon letters was originally the same, but it would be convenient to use them to distinguish the different sounds of the modern English th.
[161] Hübschmann: “Z. d. D. M. G.” xxx. pp. 53, 57.