On 2006-08-15 03:09, tgpedersen wrote:
> Took some time, but I found it again, fortunately ...
>
> http://www.verbix.com/documents/frisian.htm
>
> " Irregular verbs
>
> Infinitive: drank Past participle: dronken
>
> Present Past 1sg drank droonk 2sg drankst droonkst 3sg
> drankt droonkt pl drank droonk " I'd have to use Kuhn's
> argument that these late forms are 'popular', thus original, and have
> been there all the time in a lower sociolect.
Forms of unknown origin, possibly offered by Verbix, "a universal Verb
Conjugator"?? This is computer-speak, not real Frisian, let alone a
conservative lower sociolect! Verbix is supposed to generate the
official conjugation for a given language or dialect, and it evidently
failed to do so in this case if this is the authentic output of the
"universal Conjugator", not the result of a human's misspelling of words
in an unfamiliar language! (which I suspect is the case here). The
actual Modern Frisian forms are:
Infinitive: drinke
Present: drink, drinkst, drinkt; drinke
Preterite: dronk, dronkst, dronk; dronken
Past part.: dronken
As for Old Frisian, the only forms recorded by Holthausen/Hoffmann
(1985) are drinka 'trinken', fordrinka 'vertrinken', exactly matching OE
drincan, OSax. drinken, Goth. drigkan etc.
Piotr