More Neologisms

[David Kiltz]

On 08.09.2005, at 23:03, llama_nom wrote:

> And Pliny mentions amber islands called 'Glesiae' (Naturalis
> historia IV, 103).  Tacitus's neuter form agrees perfectly with OE
> glær.  I gather that the <e> in 'glesum' wasn't confined to East
> Germanic in the 1st century.

Isn't _glær_ masculine and _glæs_ neuter ?
As for <e>, Caesar and, more importantly, Tacitus still have _Suebi_  
and _Suebia_ (cf. German _Schwaben_) which also points to the  
preservation of PGerm. <e> or <æ>. The earliest attestation of  <â>  
in West Germanic seems to be in Bavarian 170 AD, although the  
evidence is indirect, from sources actually dating to the 4th century  
AD. In North Germanic we find <â> from the earliest attestations. Cf.  
also such Finnish loanwords as _maanan-_ 'moon' (in _maanan-tai_  
'monday') vs a loan from Gothic: _miekka_ 'sword' (Goth. mêki (acc.)).

David





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