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

[Bertil Häggman]

Francisc,

Of the numbers there is a similarity 
of one and two.  Seven, for instance,
is less so.

Thank you for the list innovations.
Will study it and come back to you.

Gothically

Bertil


> And more definitely from Gothic, that's sure.
> (Again, look at the numbers)
> 
> >
> > BTW, what are the innovations in Gothic?
> > 
> 
> It's difficult to say now, whithout any source at hand.
> As far as I remember, some of the innovations of Gothic are:
> e > i excepting before r, h, hw
> i > open e ("aí") before r, h, hw
> u > open o ("aú") before r, h, hw
> the dropping of final -a and -i
> -jj- > -ddj- (like -ggj- in ALL North Germanic languages, not only 
> Gutnish)
> -ww- > -ggw- (like in ALL North Germanic languages, not only Gutnish)
> the reversion of the "grammatic change" in the conjugation of strong 
> verbs (sorry, I don't remember any example now). For this reason, the 
> conjugation of Gothic strong verbs appears more regular than, for 
> instance, in German.
> the genitive plural in -e
> z is preserved, and in final position z > s (in all West and North 
> Germanic languages, INCLUDING GUTNISH, z > r !!!).
> More later, I have to go home to look in my books.
> 
> Francisc
> 
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