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

At 8:02:04 on Wednesday, 27 April 2005, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> 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?

> It's the consensus, afaIk. They are all colloquialism and
> pretty recent ('funkis' being perhaps the oldest).

That was my guess when I looked at them, but <skakis> 1902
is the only one that made it into SAOB.

Brian