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

[Bertil Häggman]

Francisc,

Nobody claimed that the influx was so strong
that it replaced Gutnish. After all, there is
still Gutnish around, it does not differ very
much from Old Gutnish, but definitely from
Swedish and Danish.

BTW, what are the innovations in Gothic?

Gothically

Bertil

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




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