From: tgpedersen
Message: 45737
Date: 2006-08-16
>words
> On 2006-08-15 03:09, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Took some time, but I found it again, fortunately ...
> >
> > http://www.verbix.com/documents/frisian.htm
> >
> > " Irregular verbs
> >
> > Infinitive: drank Past participle: dronken
> >
> > Present Past 1sg drank droonk 2sg drankst droonkst 3sg
> > drankt droonkt pl drank droonk " I'd have to use Kuhn's
> > argument that these late forms are 'popular', thus original, and have
> > been there all the time in a lower sociolect.
>
> Forms of unknown origin, possibly offered by Verbix, "a universal Verb
> Conjugator"?? This is computer-speak, not real Frisian, let alone a
> conservative lower sociolect! Verbix is supposed to generate the
> official conjugation for a given language or dialect, and it evidently
> failed to do so in this case if this is the authentic output of the
> "universal Conjugator", not the result of a human's misspelling of
> in an unfamiliar language! (which I suspect is the case here). Thematching OE
> actual Modern Frisian forms are:
>
> Infinitive: drinke
>
> Present: drink, drinkst, drinkt; drinke
> Preterite: dronk, dronkst, dronk; dronken
> Past part.: dronken
>
> As for Old Frisian, the only forms recorded by Holthausen/Hoffmann
> (1985) are drinka 'trinken', fordrinka 'vertrinken', exactly
> drincan, OSax. drinken, Goth. drigkan etc.Sorry, it was the first and only result I got from my first search.
>