From: tgpedersen
Message: 52219
Date: 2008-02-03
>In Danish only røg.
> The phenomenon of making originally weak verbs strong can also be
> found in the Nordic dialects:
>
> more or less accepted in Swedish:
> rök instead of rykte (made smoke),
> böt - bytte ((ex)changed),In Danish some sideform byttede, inf. bytte
> lös - lyste (was alight),Only lyste
> betöd - betydde (signified).Yes. betydede exists marginally in the sense "hinted, let understand".
> This latter, betöd, seems (to me) to have become the most used form
> in Danish. Am I correct?
> In Norwegian (I think) both are received.Not likely. Da gide gad, a relative of Eng. get got, therefore
>
> All these examples are made from (and rhyming on) genuinely strong
> verbs like knyta knöt knutit and only the preterite with ö is used.
> There are also other patterns: gita get instead of gita gitte (bring
> oneself to do) from a verb like skita sket (shit shat).