Re: Germanic Child?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

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> On 2008-09-14 17:49, Richard Wordingham wrote:
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> > I can't see how to get Old English _cild_ from Germanic *kilþam.

Why /d/?

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> It's a regular change in WGmc. (via *-lð-, perhaps independently in
> different WGmc. languages). Typical examples include <fealdan, feld,
> gold, wilde> etc. The same thing happened if *-þl- was metathesised
> early, as in *Buþla- 'dwelling' > OE botl ~ bold. Words like health

< OE

> hæ:lþ have a secondary cluster from (pre-)OE syncopation (PGmc.

*hailiþo:).

>

Perhaps it would have been helpful to mention the Gothic cognates of
OE <fealdan, gold, wilde>, namely <falthan, gulth, wiltheis> (<feld>
has no Gothic cognate of course).

AJ

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