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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Diederik Masure</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:didimasure@hotmail.com">didimasure@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.11.23 (03) [E]</span><br>
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>>RR skreiv:<br>
>>Note that this word has the characteristic Dutch epenthetic <i>-t-</i>
between <i>-n</i> and the suffix <i>-je</i> (as does <i>Bontje</i> [</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">ˈbɔnʨe</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">] <br>
>>'piece of candy' mentioned earlier): <i>-n-t-je</i>. (The labial
equivalent is <i>-m-p-je</i>.)<br>
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This is incorrect, imho. The -t- is original, medieval -kîn had its -k-
palatalised and maybe affricatised to -tcîn (cant make the c-cedille on this
keyboard) as Early Modern Dutch spellings like -tgen or -tgien indicate. The
here from derived -tje(n) then lost its /t/ in some circumstances, at least in Holland. <br>
That the -t- is original we can also still see in other dialects, eg. some
parts of West Flemish (maybe also Zeeuws then?) where the suffix is -tsje even
in words where Dutch lost the t. I have f.ex. read huustje for D huisje. <br>
Compare also the diminutive of ´licht´, lichtje which in Holland is pronounced without its t althouh
belonging to the stem, but keeping its t at least in belgian brabant. <br>
Similar to this loss of -t- before -j- in Hollandic could be the inversion of
the 2nd person sg, komt je -> kom je, lacht je -> lach je etc. <br>
<br>
Diederik</span></p>