[tied] Re: OE *picga

--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

> In Northumbrian runic inscriptions there were special letters for

palatalised velars, but that's a different story.

I sometimes think that abandoning runes was a bad idea!

> > I can see *frocca > dialect 'frock' (cited in Falk & Torp, who

propose a different derivation), but do you have examples of the
mangled onset being more marked?

> How do you know that <docga> is not a pet-form of, say, <dock(-tail)
>? No <doc> is attested in OE, to be sure, but a few external

cognates could be scraped together. In personal names the "geminate
plus -a" pattern is common (Wuffa is an authentic example, cf. Eadda
from <e:ad-> plus anything).

I wasn't arguing against the gemination; it was the phonation
variation that interested me. I would have expected a phonation
shift to produce a less marked (= easier?) form, and thus not see a
voiced geminate plosive from a voiceless plosive.

Richard.