From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 59217
Date: 2008-06-12
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"So? Stress shift in diphthongs is hardly an unusual
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>> At 4:47:34 AM on Thursday, June 12, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
>>> As for couch grass, that must be related to a different
>>> root eg. *gWih3w- "live" (cf. Da. 'kvikgræs' "couch
>>> grass", or something else, is 'couch' related?)
>> This <couch> is. Couch grass is also quitch grass, and
>> <quitch> directly continues OE <cwice>; <couch> seems
>> originally to have represented /kutS/, so the development
>> must have been something like /wi/ > /uj/ > /u/. It's also
>> quick grass, twitch (with the opposite development from that
>> seen in German quer < OHG twerh), and in the U.S. quack
>> grass.
> I've seen that development recently in a bid to explain
> river Dvina -> German Düna; supposedly LG has swester ->
> süster too (Du. zuster, Sw. syster, Da. søster), I thought
> myself of Dutch zoet /zu:t/, LG soet /sö:t/, German süss,
> Sw söt, Da. sød "sweet". But those distribution 1) don't
> match geographically with each other, 2) or with any other
> known major.
> Further, if there were any truth to this supposedWhat on earth are you talking about? There is no *k > ts in
> Inguaeonic *k > ts,