Re: [tied] Re: Dissimilation of gW/kWVw to gVw/kVw

At 7:10:21 AM on Tuesday, April 26, 2005, tgpedersen wrote:

> But consider the loan in Swedish (presumably from student
> slang) of Latin sg.nom. or pl.dat.,abl. -is in

> funkis (< funktionalism)
> skakis (< inf. skaka "shake") "nervous"
> fjortis (< fjorton "fourteen") "teenybopper"
> dagis (< daghem) "kindergarten"
> kändis (< känd "known") "celebrity"

On what evidence do you conclude that the Latin inflectional
suffixes are the source of this element?

Brian