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English bow and ow, and in the Irish dialect of English, where bold, hold, cold, &c., be- 
come bowld, &c., influenced by /. 
236. Reversed anallaxis appears in the Swedish JAG compar aed with Latin Heo (1,) and 
in the modern IAlea, from the ancient Kiama. The following are Rhaetian examples— 
TERRA tlAra earth, VvERMIs vVIArm worm, vEspa vIAspra wasp. 
“Some words that might be supposed to be under Wa [English w, a in far,] are to be 
found under O, as the syllable wa is often pronounced like 0, and o like wa.” (Baraga, | 
Otshipwe Dictionary.) The latter (0+—wa, § 245,) is an example of reversed anallaxis, the 
former (wa-—o) of metallaxis. 
237. Metallaxis is the replacement of two elements by one that is intermediate, being 
the reverse of anallaxis. It occurs in passing from AI to E and from AU to O, as in 
Latin BALAINA, Italian balEna (a whale,) Latin cA‘VsA, (a cause,) Italian cOsa, French 
chOse; Latin cA‘Vprx and cOpeEx (a stem.) 
238. The following tables of the affinities of the primary vowels may be used in study- 
ing intermutation. In the second one the complementary vowels are placed; in the third, 
the close of the organs to French w is indicated, and the probable manner in which the 
letter Y was suggested from its relations to the vowels V (co) and I. 
Arm 
Owe vin 
pull machine 
A 
awe urn 
O E 
Wes 
Ov 
Y 
A Dy 
239. Intermutation being mostly in the closing direction, when U and I are reached, the 
recession continuing, U may become the labial, and I the guttural coalescent. But let the 
vowel of the German kwh (coo, a cow) be closed to English 2, and the result (ew in qu-een) 
is hardly pronounceable until « vowel is interposed, when the English form cow appears. 
240. If I be closed upon sufficiently to form the guttural coalescent, this must be aided 
in a similar manner by a vowel, for coalescents appear in no other manner in English. 
Hence the French cri, thus treated becomes cry, (that is, in Latin letters CRA,) by pre- 
cession and epenthesis, not by anallaxis. 
* Castelli, Wérterbuch der Mundart in Oesterreich unter der Enns. Wien, 1847, p. 13. 
