Re: "Getisk," said the Get, but nobody did not hear him.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] "Getisk," said the Get, but nobody did not hear

him.

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> And umlaut that early has been proposed by cleverer minds than mine.

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> The umlaut of *u reflected as *e in the fifth century BC (mind you,
the <getai> are also mentioned by Herodotus), probably well before
the completion Grimm's shift and several centuries before anyone in
the Graeco-Roman world heard about the Goths? I don't know who has
proposed it, but I'm apalled to learn that those minds are cleverer
than yours. Please, Torsten, flog something else, this horse is
_really_ dead.
>
> Piotr
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Thank you for the diagnosis, mr. Vet.

Since umlaut occurs in all Germanic languages, many have proposed
that began in Prto-Germanic (although unrecorded since non-phonemic
as long as the following -i- that caused it was still there). And
then we're back in Strabo's (although not Herodotus') time.

Torsten