LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.04.17 (01) [E/S]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Language varieties"

> From: Colin Wilson <lcwilson at btinternet.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.04.14 (10) [E]

Grand tae hear fae ye again, Colin.

> Gaelic's most obvious (although certainly not its only) influence on
> Scots vocabulary, is a range of words for natural features. Some examples
> are: _glen_ (G. _gleann_, a valley); _ben_ (G. _beinn_, a mountain);
> _drum_ (G. _druim_, a ridge); _corrie_ (G. _coire_, a hollow or gully in
> a mountainside); _loch_ (G. _loch_, a lake); _skerrie_ (G. _sgeir_, a
> reef); _linn_ (G. _linne_, a pool).

I wonder if the phonological processes as in "wha" -> "fa" and
"guid" => "gweed" in more northerly Scots is a result of the
Gaelic substrate?

These have been around for hundreds of years (Fergusson puts
them in the mouths of his Aberdeen characters, for example). Is
it possible that, Scots having been first built on a Brythonic
substrate, phonemes that were anathema to the Gaels north of the
Forth became altered in this way? It would then have to have
receded to north of the Tay, unless the more southerly Gaels
in Fife always spoke less-infuenced Scots, being more in touch?

> To my knowledge, today's only remnant of ancient British is
in the form
> of place-names or elements in them.

As you suggested some time ago, constructions like "I am going"
for "I go" may have come from Brythonic.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/


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