From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 44445
Date: 2006-04-30
>The consonant is not final in the OE forms of these words.
> Piotr Gasiorowski skrev:
> > I intend to publish the argument soon, so
> > please don't quote me yet, but the general idea is that the
> > final syllable in polysyllabic words was apocopated in early
> > WGmc., and if a final voiced fricative was exposed in word-
> > final position as a result, it became devoiced and remained
> > devoiced (unless *-D > -d was restored analogically).
> So the net result for *OE is that Verner's Law is
> invisible after nasals? How does that go together
> with *antyo´- > germ. *andja- > OE ende ?