Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:08:30 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>On 2008-03-07 23:17, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
>> Thank you Brian. That was my first reaction as well, when I
>> first heard it. This is so beautiful, it deserves to be
>> true.
>
>I've thought so since I saw the evidence collected by Lühr (1988) and
>Schaffner (2001).

I meant specifically the combination of Kluge's law with
n-stem ablaut grades and paradigm levelling. I already
believed in Kluge's law (ever since I read Kortlandt's
review of Lühr).

>I'm now inclined to believe, like Kroonen, that the
>regular development of *-Cn-' after long nuclei was degemination, not
>the failure of nasal assimilation, so that e.g. OE tæ:can 'show, teach'
>is regular while Goth. taiknjan is analogical (after <taikns>). I find
>the analysis of the 'hare' word intriguing. If the *a in Gmc. forms
>altaernates with *e, it surely reflects a schwa secundum, and so does
>Lat. /a/ in ca:nus < *k^&s-no-, so the root must be *k^es-, not *k^as-.

What about þegn?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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