[gothic-l] Re: Ansis

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi Dirk,

it seems to me that sometimes in North Germanic nasals were dropped 
before fricative consonants (like in ans- > as-), but I don't know 
what conditionned this phonetic change (anyway, less regular than the 
similar one in Old Saxon and Old English). I don't have 
my "Altisländisches Elementarbuch" at hand now (where all sound 
changes from Common Germanic to Old Norse are described), so I can 
not verify.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "faltin2001" <dirk at s...> wrote:
> ...
> 
> Hi Francisc,
> 
> do you know anything about the linguistics behind these terms? Why 
> was the word 'Ans-' in Gothic and West Germanic, but 'As' in North 
> Germanic? Is this loss of 'n' a regular occurance?
> 
> Thanks
> Dirk



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