From: tgpedersen
Message: 60213
Date: 2008-09-21
>I know. But I think the *-en- > *-in- spread as hypercorrection from
> At 4:57:06 PM on Saturday, September 20, 2008, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > This is how I imagined the -en- > -in- rule of Germanic
> > happened.
> > Once it inflected:
>
> > *sprenga *sprengm.
> > *sprengis *sprengiþ
> > *sprengiþ *sprengn.þ
>
> > with umlaut
> > *sprenga *sprengm.
> > *springis *springiþ
> > *springiþ *sprengn.þ
>
> > generalized
> > *springa *springm.
> > *springis *springiþ
> > *springiþ *springn.þ
>
> > vel sim., Brian!
>
> Pre-nasal raising (*e > *i / _NC) is distinct from i-umlaut
> of *e and occurs in all classes of words. (E.g., *kinnuz
> 'cheek' by way of *genwu- from *g^é:nu-s ~ *g^énw- 'jaw'.)
> It must also be a relatively late change in pre-PGmc., in
> view of Finn. <rengas> 'ring' from a pre-stage of PGmc.
> *hringaz.