Re: Verner-alternating Gmc. nouns

From: G&P
Message: 62302
Date: 2008-12-28

Torsten:

>What I find difficult to believe is that PGmc should have gotten rid
>of ablaut (in nouns only) without getting rid of its effect (Verner)
>at the same time.

Doesn’t modern English show that the effect of an alternation can survive long after the alternation has gone?   We see this in words like house/ houses, and (with different effect) foot/feet, mouse/mice and so on. 

Peter