[gothic-l] Moon (was Gothic gods)

[llama_nom]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Le Bateman" <LeBateman at A...> wrote:
> I am not certain the name would have an e in it, if it resembles 
the other
> Germanic words. OE is mona, OS maybe the same Mona. OHG would that 
be monaz?
> Would it be similar munais?


Hi Le,

If you look under "moon" in an English etymological dictionary, you 
sould find attested cognates in all these languages and more:

OE móna
OHG, OS mâno
Go. mena
ON máni

etc. (all long root vowels, including Gothic).

These are exactly the forms linguists would expect to develop from 
the Germanic root *mæ:n-.  (The ending is descended from the Gmc. an-
stem in the case of ON and Go., but the ôn-stem, in the case of the 
West Germanic languages.)

Germanic /æ:/ normally becomes /a:/ in WG and NG, but /e:/ in EG.  
In OE, there is a further development to /æ:/ (or else the earlier 
Germanic value remained unchanged), except before nasals, where the 
usual development is to /o:/.  Cf. OE nómon, cwómon, ON námu, kvámu, 
Go. nemun, qemun.

Llama Nom





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