Principles of reconstruction.

[Justïn]

Okay, Prim. Germanic, I'm finding, is *batham.  So...I'm looking 
through Wright's Grammar...and I'm a little overwhelmed...It's been a 
little more than 20 minutes and, as it's not the most user friendly 
text, I'm not sure where to find something that actually compares PG to 
how it evolved into Gothic.  I found a comparison chart but it didn't 
tell me what to do with initial B, medial TH, or final -M, let alone 
the morpheme -AM, so I'm a little lost right now...
I really, really want to do this, so I'm looking more for a hint than 
the answer, really...but just very overwhelmed.  I wish I'd been able 
to study linguistics more but determined to learn this with or without 
the best formal education.

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
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> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Justïn <justinelf@> wrote:
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> > Right!....um...I was just about to say that...
> 
> Maybe not the best example to begn with ;-)  Any thoughts on 'bath'?
>


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