[tied] Re: Of cows and living

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> On 2006-02-23 10:25, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Are you sure Verner applies in this case? I can't think of

another

> > Germanic example that alternates stops in -lT- or -rT-.
>
> You must be joking. Some of the handbook examples of strong verbs

do

> just that, e.g. *werþ-/*warþ-/*wurd- 'turn, become'. Cf. also

similar

> alternations in adjectival stems, e.g. *alda- 'old' vs. comp.

*alþizan-

> (the reflexes of PGmc. *-lþ- and *-ld- merged in English, to be

sure,

> but not generally in Germanic). Of course Verner's Law also

affected

> numerous isolated words of the right shape, e.g. *pr.-tú- > *furdu-

> 'ford', *tl.h2-tí- > *þuldi- 'patience', etc.
>

True. I must have had a stroke. But I don't recall another High
German example of -lx- / -lk-.

Torsten