hey everyone, first time post for me here, it seems.. first, some introductory blah: for a year, i've been working on a constructed language, and from the...
Welcome, Jú. Your vowel system looks fascinating, and I'm sure someone here with more expertise than I will advise you. However, my eyes were caught by this ...
Jú eskrë » ... Au contraire - «Jamets» is my Jameldic name, which I often use on *conlang lists. (It should be written with a ts-ligature, but that's not...
hi everyone.. i am currently revising my grammar, and i have chosen to derivate it from ProtoGermanic.. for that sake, i have written a script in PHP that...
... I think u-breaking and u-umlaut happened at different times. I haven't got any notes or references to hand, but I think /e/ was broken by /u/ before...
... In that case you are probably interested in this document <http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/scanned_books/pdf/pgmc_torp/pgmc_torp.pdf> In...
... Speaking of which, I noticed the other day the recent publication (2003) of _A Handbook of Germanic Etymology_ by Vladimir Orel, which the publishers...
... Jú, Are you speaking about historical developments (in Old Norse, I guess) or about possible conlang changes? In Old Norse stem /e/ fractured to /jO/...
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 04:35:56 +0100, daniel prohaska ... In this context, what is /ø/? I would normally assume CXS/XSampa /2/, IPA /ø/, a front mid rounded...
Tristan, Generally SAMPA /2/ = /ø/. Here, too. As always with historical linguistics it is difficult, if not impossible, to determine the exact sound, e.g. ...
... Which means I must have my head on backwards concerning the various treatments of PN /e/ as affected by u-breaking in West Norse and East Norse. Certainly...
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:06:03 +0100, daniel prohaska ... Thanks ... My germaniconlang is West Germanic :) ... I think it was just my idea of what a merger...
... I think it may be because Modern Icelandic orthography uses <ö> for the sound that developed from Old Norse /O/ (which in normalized Old Icelandic...
wow, my question seems to have raised quite a debate here. i must admit that my way of spelling was a little unclear: i actually employed the standard most...
Thanks, Benct, for this great resource!!! Dan ________________________________________ Von: Benct Philip Jonsson [mailto:melroch@...] Gesendet: Montag,...
... Sorry, Carl, I can't really help you here. I'm far more familiar with West Norse phonology than with East Norse. But I have thought about this before, ...
... OK, I dragged out a photocopy I had buried somewhere of J.Voyles _Early Gmc. Grammar_ (not the end-all and be-all, but serviceable) and he suggests...
... This gives me an idea for a conculture where all confusion *is* intentional. ... "I have confused myself on purpose." Jamets -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --...
... I realize I misrepresented this somewhat. According to Voyles, shift of stress in rising diphthongs causes *earþu > *eörþu (where /ö/ is /O/). I...
... No, if there is the right context for a-breaking there is no appropriate environment for u-umlaut. Synchronically u-breaking *looks* like u-umlauted...
... <daniel@r...> wrote: What I can't see happening is both changes [jo] < [jø] because a /u/ ending would have been necessary to cause /e/ < [jo] and an /au/...
... That may be! I'm out of my depth here :) But surely there is no a-breaking in *erþu or *nerþuz? Unless ... perhaps you mean a-breaking caused from a...
... Yes there is a-breaking in the genitive singular _jarðar_ and genitive plural _jarða_ (not that gen.pl. of "earth" occurs very often...) -- /BP 8^)> -- ...
... OK, so is it only the operation or failure of paradigmatic levelling that seperates East Norse <iorþ> from East Norse *NjarþR, in that the latter's /ja/...
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