On 2006-04-30 18:21, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> The consonant is not final in the OE forms of these words.
And even where it was final in OE it wasn't necessarily final in PWGmc.
or even prehistoric OE. The apocope I wrote about took place in words
with at least two syllables following the one with primary stress. A
word like *(kom-)mn.tís > PGmc. *(ga-)munDiz > *(ge-)mundi > OE
(ge-)mynd 'mind' lost its *i after the operation of palatal umlaut, i.e.
_just_ before the emergence of English as a written language. By that
time inherited *D had long become *d in all positions.
Piotr