Re: [tied] 1st Germanic sound shift

You are stating the selfevident - a fact realized by far too few. The
sound shift is a series of events that took place in the prehistory of
Proto-Germanic. There is no particular reason to find names for any of
these stages which are just stages younger than Proto-Indo-European and
older than Proto-Germanic.

Jens

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michael wrote:

>
>      Why is the 1st Germanic sound shift so essential in defining
> Germanic as distinct from proto-Germanic?  Couldn't it just be thought of
> as one stage in the development of Germanic rather than marking the
> distinction between the newly emerged Germanic from proto-Germanic?  Is
> the consonant shift the only feature to distinguish the two?
>
> -Michael
>
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