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/...
... I'm pretty sure I remember a number of compound nouns starting with jarð-, at least, and some with jarðar- .... I can see why there might be fewer...
... No, I must have got you wrong before. I thought you were proposing such a change - but now it makes sense that it didn't make sense. ... I wasn't saying...
... Well, East Norse had /jAk/ in contrast to West Norse /ek/; a-breaking in EN but not in WN? :) I'm not sure. Nor am I sure what the explanation for...
... Maybe you could point me towards that timeline - I couldn't find it. Thanks. ... So are you saying that all case endings (sg. and pl.?) were spontaneously...
... Yes, but it would not in a "singular tantum", it would be gen.sg. there, as in the modern _jarðarfræði_ "geology". -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson...
... Fair enough! Any ideas on why a-breaking failed in WN here? Not through analogical levelling with other parts of the 1st person pronoun paradigm, surely...
... Lack of stress because the word was clitic is the traditional explanation. BTW u-breaking is weird even in East Scandinavian: *melku becomes _melk_ in...
Are there any Frisian experts here? (I've tried the Fryske Akademy, but apart from a brief reply stating they'd see if they could find the information, I've...
... The etymology of "tizzy" is not known, but it's unlikely to be an inherited word, due to the lack of citations before the 20th century. -- John Cowan...
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