winja

[Ian Ragsdale]

>From Wright's Gothic Grammar:

"#192 (o-stems)...
jo-stems - with a short radical syllable [including words in -ja and with a
monosyllabic root]...The nom. sing. had its -a either from the pure o-stems
or else it was the acc. used for the old nominative."

IMO, since "vinja" has a short mono-syllabic root, the nom. is probably
"vinja."

If it was long or polysyllabic, the nom. would be "vini."  But that does not
appear to be the case.

IMR



On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Ingemar Nordgren <ingemar at nordgren.se>wrote:

>   Hi,
>
> Could somebody among all you linguistic wizards help me to estimate a
> nominative of the ack. form 'vinja' f. meaning Grassing place for cattle,
> Germ. Weide, Sw. -vin, -vene in the end of place names. Unhappily enough
> ack. is the only form in which the word is attested. I think the Pgm form
> might be wisa and that Germ.Wiese comes from the same word. Evidently it is
> also connected with AS wynne, desire, longing.
>
> Look forward to an understandable answer without too many lingvistic
> equilibrances.
>
> Best
> Ingemar
>
>  
>


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