[gothic-l] Re: Old Nordic, Gothic and Old Gutnish

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi Bertil,

--- In gothic-l at y..., Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thank you for providing your view on this.
> From which time period are the Old Gutnish numbers?
> Because one has to take into account that
> there was an influx of Danish and Swedish
> as the centuries went. 

The Old Gutnish numbers were posted to this list by other listmember 
(Tore) and I don't know from which time period are they.
In any case, excepting the preservation of "ai" in "ain" and "tvair", 
they look very North Germanic and not at all Gothic.
If the Danish/Swedish influx was so strong that it was able to change 
the originally Gutnish numbers with Danish/Swedish numbers, than you 
have to admit that practically the originally Gutnish language 
(allegedly very close to Gothic) was replaced by a Scandinavic 
language. Thus, in the best case, Gutnish may be considered an East 
Scandinavic language with a Gothic substratum.
In any case, to prove this we should see also common innovations in 
Gothic and Gutnish, not only shared archaisms.

Francisc


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