Re: Uralic Loanwords in Germanic

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 65856
Date: 2010-02-14

W dniu 2010-02-14 21:56, Brian M. Scott pisze:

> Ringe doesn't think so, though he notes that owing to
> remodelling in all of the daughters, the PGmc. nom. sing.
> isn't recoverable. For instance, he conjectures a nom.-acc.
> sing. *segaz.

The most common remodellings include simple thematisation (*siGiz- ->
*siGiza-) and morphological truncation yielding an i-stem (*siGiz- ->
*siGi-). The type od OE lamb/lambru, OHG lamb/lembir may reflect
*lamBaz, but ON lamb is just "plain thematic" *lamBa-, with an early
loss of the suffix (in all case forms). The full -e/os-stem paradigm is
not attested anywhere in Germanic; we can only see its partial remnants.

Piotr