Yeah. Any more info would be nice, although the shifts aren't generally as extensive as in English, and when they do occur they're fairly along the same lines...
I recommend R.E. Keller's "The German Language" (for publication info see <http://tinyurl.com/fycot>). Not online, but a book. I would always try a (uni)...
Roly, Many of the MHG and OHG distinctions are still preserved in the various German dialects, so it might be worth checking them out, too. - Gmc *ai changed...
Thanks for the answers. Thanks for the book recommendation, Benct - I plan a trip back to "alma mater's" library at some point, just pressed for time at the...
Hi! What is 'sem' in Icelandic derived from? Or Swedish 'som' or Faroese 'sum' (i.e., the modern North Germanic relative clause particle)? I could not find a...
theiling@...
Jun 26, 2006 12:24 am
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From: Peter Collier "Now if any kind soul wants to save me some time again, here's today's pop quiz. There's a correspondence between /b/ in German and /f/...
Does anyone know off the tops of their heads, at what point German lost the /w/ phoneme? Was it during the MHD of NHD period? Secondly, this book I have here...
... Both NGmc and WGmc have rhotacism; WGmc doesn't show it less clearly as NGmc, because most WGmc languages dropped this -r at an early stage. Consider EGmc...
Hi! ... Are the German Plural endings in -r originally in -z in PG? sg. Mann, pl. Männer < ?*manniz **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Jul 11, 2006 12:52 am
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Related to your "w" question, Middle English borrowed a large number of words from Old Norse/Scandinavian -- a number of those words containing "w". Sorry...
... Wouldn't most of the words actually been borrowed during the Old English period, only first appearing in surviving written form during the Middle English...
Maybe, lots of those words are first attested in the Middle English period. In English there are a number of word pairs, one from native English origin and the...
... I'm not sure there are many examples of Scandinavian words written the Latin alphabet from the period in which Old English was spoken. The earliest...
... I don't know about all of them, but apparently neuter plurals like PGc *lambizô > _Lämmer_ while the singular *lambaz > _Lamm_ lost the *-z in final...
Carl and others, As far as I know (from memory) the oldest Old Norse texts are from the 12th century. I could be mistaken. I do know, however, that what we...
I'm not overly equipped with references on Scandinavian historical grammar at home, but having had a chance to skim Voyles now, I see he dates the change of...
The Wikipedia article about MHD (1050-1350) says that it still had a [w] phoneme. The wiki article about early New High German unfortunately makes no mention...
Someone recently asked me if Jameld has any informal expressions for death, such as to "kick the bucket", "buy the farm" or "snuff it". I had to reply that it...
... Try Monty Python's Flying Circus' Dead Parrot Sketch; it reveals a lot of English expressions about death and having died. In Dutch there are such as:...
Does anyone by chance have, or know of, a Proto-Germanic dictionary in a spreadsheet, comma-deliniated text file, or similar format? Or, roughly, something...
I don't know of one - but if you end up doing it yourself, I hope you'll consider being generous enough to share! ... From: "Angel" <dammerlicht@...> To:...
... Does anyone by chance have, or know of, a Proto-Germanic dictionary in a spreadsheet, comma-deliniated text file, or similar format? Or, roughly, something...
Hi! ... I am preparing one by parsing Köbler's dictionaries (in PDF) with Perl. Unfortunately, it is not trivial at all. But I want an SQL-based dictionary...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Oct 8, 2006 1:11 am
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... There are the XML and PDF versions of "Wortschatz der Germanischen Spracheinheit" at the Germanic Lexicon Project ...
... I guess the Text::Aspell Perl module could be (ab)used to verify if a given word exists in German. Not on my system, however... There is also the problem ...
There is an excel spreadsheet of PG roots by somebody named Torp on the Theudiskon Yahoo! group. I have just put it in the Germaniconlang files section....
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the germaniconlang group. File :...
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Oct 8, 2006 8:19 pm
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... Try Monty Python's Flying Circus' Dead Parrot Sketch; it reveals a lot of English expressions about death and having died. << I am, of course, aware of the...
Hi! ... E.g. German has the following colloquial ones (among others): - 'ins Gras beißen' 'to bite into the grass' - 'den Löffel abgeben' 'to give away...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Oct 11, 2006 10:50 am
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... _Gå/kila runt hörnet_ exists in Swedish too. As you IIRC know Norwegian I assume this expression is not known there, which kind of surprises me! My...
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