Re: [tied] Germanic Numerals

From: P&G
Message: 10209
Date: 2001-10-14

 

>Can you give a reference for Old Saxon, OHG, Old Frisian and Old Norse numerals?
or if you know the actual forms of the numerals 1-10 ....
 
Wilhelm Streitberg  "Urgermanische Grammatik" gives:
 
              M          F              N
Gothic   twai      twos        twa 
O Ice    tueir       tuoer        tuau
O E      twezen  twa         tu / twa
O S      twena    two/twa   twe/ twa
OHG    zwene   zwa/zwo   zwei
 
(difficult to get all the signs into ASCII - so this is just a first approximation)
Peter