From: andythewiros
Message: 71518
Date: 2013-11-07
I don't know. I want to believe that it's because in some dialects *th (þ) didn't voice to ð so it didn't become d when simplified, but rather immediately simplified to t. In some dialects. But I don't know the truth about dialects. I don't know the truth about anything, honestly.
---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <grzegorj2000@...> wrote:Germanic *th yielded d in German. So, we would expect *dausent "1000" (cf. Eng. thousand, Old Saxon thu^sundig etc. (+ attestation of t- in Balto-Slavic). Dutch duizend is regular, as well as OHG du^sunt is.If the MHD and modern German forms with t- are borrowings, from what dialect/language?And if their development was regular, are there more German words with t- on the place of Germanic th-?Kluge only states "Lautlich zu erwarten wäre nhd. d-" - this is just statement, no way explanation. If d- was expected like Kluge says, why t-?