Re: [tied] Germanic strong verbs class VI

At 3:12:52 PM on Monday, August 14, 2006, tgpedersen wrote:

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> Now did NWBlock have a/o: ablaut?
> Possible evidence:
> English hook, Dutch hoek, German Haken
> English hood, Dutch hoed, German Hut, English hat
> (connected by Kuhn to Latin cassis "helmet",
> further Chatti, Hessen, examples of -tt-/-ss-).

> Then I stumbled over some Friesian strong verbs
> (and what could be more NWBlock than Friesian):
> pres. drank-, pret. droonk-

Gerhard Köbler gives the OFr verb as <drinka>, a Class III
strong verb (e/i, a, u, u). He gives the NFr verb as
<drincken>, Saterlandish <drinca>. For /a/ in the present
you want Goth. <dragkjan> 'to give to drink', ON <drekkja>
'to submerge, to drown', OE <drencan> (both senses), OFr
<drentza> 'to drown', but of course this is a weak verb.

[...]

Brian