On Jun 27, 2020, at 10:40, Hugh Son puqloD <Hugh@qeylis.net> wrote:
On Jun 27, 2020, at 09:49, Will Martin <willmartin2@mac.com> wrote: That pretty much leaves the prefix {gho-} as the only example I can think of in the entire vocabulary.
There’s also:
{gho} - circle {ro} - trunk, torso, {Do} - velocity {po} - morning {cho-} you singular/me {jo} - resources {'o} - vocative “o”
(The first five I thought of off the top of my head; the remainder I found by going through all of the consonants and adding o and seeing if it made a word.)
Clearly I didn’t go through *all* of the consonants, since I missed {bo} - feather and {bo-} - you plural/him,her,it,them
So if it is true that syllable-final {o} is pronounced as a diphthong [ow], there are quite a few words that it could apply to.