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

[Tore Gannholm]

>The Old Gutnish numbers were posted to this list by other listmember
>(Tore) and I don't know from which time period are they.


They were from Guta lagh written down about 1220

I have earlier mentioned that the full text in Gutnish of the Guta lagh can
be found on http://gotland.luma.com/guta.html
Tore


>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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