Re: [tied] Rune-essay Mads Peder Nordbo

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 11823
Date: 2001-12-16

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:51:18 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>That gets you into trouble if you try to analyse intervocalic -sC- clusters in the same way. There are sure examples of Germanic *-st- and *-sk- (< *-st-/*-sd- and *-sk-/*-sg-) contrasting with *-zd- and *-zg- (< *-sdH-, *-sgH-). I can't think of any instances of *-zb- < *-sbH-, but phonotactic symmetry requires that intervocalic *-sp- be analysed as /sp/ rather than /sb/.

Right. I was thinking about initial sp- (st-, sk-) only.

I'm curious: are there any instances of medial Gmc. *-zd-, *-zg- from
PIE *-st-, *-sk-? In other words: do we have Verner without Grimm?

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