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

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > The variation of short u/o was allophonic in early Germanic. To

be

> more precise, *u was lowered to [o] in some positions, and Proto-
> Germanic had no *o phoneme. The lowering was conditioned by the
> presence of *a in the next syllable, so it would not have taken

place

> in *gutiska-. Some of the earliest records of the Goths' ethnonym
> have <gut->, so it doesn't rest on my inferences.
> >
> > Piotr

correction:

>
> *gut-a-, *gut-isk-
> *got-a-, *gut-isk- (a-lowering)

*got-a-, *got-isk- (analogy)

> *got-a-, *göt-isk- (umlaut)
> *göt-a-, *göt-isk- (back-formation, cf. German <Däne>)
> Get-a-, *get-isk- (unrounding)
>
> As for the existence of -isk- in Thracian ethnonyms cf. <Scordisci>
> (unfortunately for me without umlaut, so I'll claim dialect
> differences).
>
> Torsten