Meaning of ``Goth``

[Herb Stahlke]

I  don't know Germanic linguistics well, but could /kans/ be
something Notker would have written?

Herb Stahlke

<<< Georg at home.ivm.de  1/ 6  8:37p >>>
>         By the way (displaying my ignorance here), how does OHG
"kans"
>appear as modern German "gans"?  Did only the /d/ -> /t/ part of
this shift
>get fully established in standard German?

It's OHG, MHG, and NHG /gans/.
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