BULLOCKS > Donder

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

Yes, that is very odd.  I'm sure, though ,that if we looked long and hard enough, we'd  find some dialect with 'donder' along the border.
I didn't check out 'blitz', but the original form was with /k/, which got changed to /t/ before /s/. So it was in OHG and MHG.  So, it's possible that 'Bliksen' was still available in some dialect to the author.  Dutch also had (has in some dialects?) 'bliksen.'  OHG sometimes had /m/ where we now have /n/.  Would really need more investigation to determine the /m/, though.
Fritz

>>> pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU 05/06/05 08:50AM >>>
--On Friday, May 6, 2005 8:38 AM -0700 FRITZ JUENGLING
<juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US> wrote:

Ah!  And also dunder, which someone wrote was the form used in the original
version of the poem.  However, then there's still Blixen, which seems
closer to Dutch in spite of the final m > n replacement for the sake of the
rhyme.  How odd that the forms with -d-, so characteristic of Dutch, would
be preserved in the South, and apparently not in any areas near the Dutch
area.


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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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