[gothic-l] Re: Germanic/Gothic phonology and Wright's grammar

[gazariah]

Francisc:

I have just a few books on Germanic available to me, but I gather
scholars have suggested that because both North and West Germanic
(NWG)have some changes that do not appear in Gothic, we can
hypothesize that Primitive Germanic broke first into East Germanic
(Gothic) and NWG, and that the split into NG and WG happened later.

ON <guth> for "god" alongside <goth> can easily be explained through
paradigm leveling. Of course Gothic <guth> could be explained the
same way, but since Germanic /u/ never seems turn into Gothic /o/
this is probably the wrong way.

Gazariah


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