Re: Odp: Odp: Nordwestblock

How do you think shifted stops would look like in Roman rendering? *s-s? *f-f? (or -z if the first syllable was unstressed in Germanic word and this letter and its Hellenistic phonetical meaning [z] (not [zd]/[dz]) had been already adapted?) Is there a consistent way of rendering dental fricatives in Classical Latin?

Sergei

Who knows if the Teutons who joined the Cimbri in their southward raid in the late 2nd century BC weren't NWB-speakers rather than Germani proper. The unshifted stops of Teut- might suggest that (the usual story is that the name is of Celtic origin). Just a loose thought, don't take it too seriously.

Piotr