Re: Germanic Origin of English Final /g/ (was: Horse Sense)

--- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> > > Have you got a cognate for English _dog_? Note
> that
> > > the final /g/
> > > cannot regularly derive from Proto-Germanic.
> > >
> > > Richard.
> >
> > And dig? dug? tug? twig?
>
> _Dig_ is first attested in the 13th century.
>
> _Dug_ is first attested in the 16th century.

so why do some of our colleagues link it to IE *dhe- ?

>
> _Tug_ is first attested in the 13th century.
>
> _Twig_ is later Northumbrian (_twigge_), apparently
> of Scandinavian
> origin. The native OE form is spelt <twig> and
> <twi>.
>
> > zweig?
>
> Is this word English? :)

You didn't say the word had to be English, just that
it couldn't come from pGmc

> You can add _drag_ to the list - it's obviously
> related to thoroughly
> native _draw_, but again it seems to be derived from
> the Scandavian
> cognate.
>
> The only regular final /g/ I know of is after /n/,
> but that's not
> standard English - the standard pronunciation of
> <ring> is /riN/.
>
> Richard.
>
>

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