Re: Slavic endings

From: tgpedersen
Message: 46087
Date: 2006-09-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2006-09-15 10:31, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >> On 2006-09-14 19:01, tgpedersen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Where would you place the accent shift?
> >> After VL, obviously. It doesn't seem possible to place it
precisely in
> >> relation to the later changes.
>
> Sorry. I forgot what I'd said myself: Prokosch's Law and Kluge's Law
> don't operate word-initially and after an accented nucleus, so the
> Germanic stress shift must be even more recent.
>
> > I have problems with the geography here:
> > Coriovallum -> Heerlen (near Maastricht): Gl1a #1
> > Tournai -> Doornijk (Flanders): Gl1a #1
> > *danu -> Tanew (South East Poland): Gl2 #5
>
> What exacly is the problem?
> On Tanew, see
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/28324
>

The problem isn't yours, but mine, since I am the one who wants
the genesis of the Proto-Germanic language stretched out along a
Galicia-to-Thuringia course. I would have wanted the earliest
rules to be documnented in toponyms in the east, the latest
ones in the west.

A few more facts (on Verner)
Visurgis -> Weser/Werra: VL
Ems/Emergouwe: VL


Torsten