Re: Schaffner's list of Verner-alternating Gmc nouns

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 65937
Date: 2010-03-08



From: Torsten <tgpedersen@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, March 7, 2010 6:32:38 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Schaffner's list of Verner-alternating Gmc nouns

--- In cybalist@... s.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@ ...> wrote:
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> From: Torsten <tgpedersen@ ...>
Note the agis- and egis- forms, cf. with
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/36448
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http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/48682
Kuhn notes elsewhere that in his NWB/Venetic there are many cases of the pattern known from Latin s-stem noun / adj. in -st- (honos / honestus etc), in this case ang-ust-, known from both Latin and Germanic.

Torsten
 
Perhaps Lotharingen might be a better --albeit anachronistic-- term for the zone,  whose inhabitants seem to be been squeezed out of their languages time and time again. Given that the Rhine corresponds to much of the area, Rhenish might work or Rhine-Hister to be more complete or Rhenhysterical.