Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 2:53:25 PM on Tuesday, February 26, 2008, alexandru_mg3
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > II) Kortlandt (-> that is not Jassanof) takes also
> > seriously into acount Antonsen interpretations in 'THE
> > GERMANIC WEAK PRETERIT'
>
> > http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art109e.pdf
>
> > "The attested older Runic endings are the following (cf.
> > Antonsen 1975):"
>
> > [...]
>
> > "3rd sg. -ai: Novling clasp (Jutland, 200 AD), Vimose
> > chape (Fyn, 250- 300 AD), Darum bracteate 3 (Jutland,
> > 450-550 AD)."
>
> I wonder whether that's the chape whose inscription is read
>
> mariha aala makija
>
> by Looijenga. He says:
>
> On one side of the chape is mariha; when turning the
> object halfway round, the inscription proceeds on the same
> side with aala. The initial a is a Sturzrune (upside-down
> rune) in my opinion, but most runologists read i. On the
> other side of the object is makija. Antonsen's reading
> (1975:32) marida cannot be right, as there is quite
> clearly an h and no d.
>
> Brian

I already quoted the inscription Brian in one of my previous messages:


"69. Novling Fibula (around 200)

bidawarijaR talgidai
"

I also added that the text was confirmed by Other Scholars too.

It would be better to read all the messages first, before to ask
yourself:

"I wonder whether that's the chape whose inscription is read
mariha aala makija"


Marius