[tied] Re: Dissimilation of gW/kWVw to gVw/kVw

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 7:10:21 AM on Tuesday, April 26, 2005, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > But consider the loan in Swedish (presumably from student
> > slang) of Latin sg.nom. or pl.dat.,abl. -is in
>
> > funkis (< funktionalism)
> > skakis (< inf. skaka "shake") "nervous"
> > fjortis (< fjorton "fourteen") "teenybopper"
> > dagis (< daghem) "kindergarten"
> > kändis (< känd "known") "celebrity"
>
> On what evidence do you conclude that the Latin inflectional
> suffixes are the source of this element?
>

It's the consensus, afaIk. They are all colloquialism and pretty
recent ('funkis' being perhaps the oldest). Nothing like it in Danish,
except 'kändis' has been borrowed, even though it matches badly wrt
phonology.


Torsten