W dniu 2011-06-14 23:55, Rick McCallister pisze:
> How great was the difference between Anglo-Saxon, Frisian and Old Saxon?
They were closely related dialects of North Sea Germanic. The manner of
articulation of Germanic coronals does seem to be unstable in the
neighbourhood of /m/, cf. *buDma- ~ *buTma- (OHG bodem), *but(t)ma- (OE
botm) 'bottom'. Some of the variation is due to Kluge's Law and the
generalisation of its results, but some of the developments leading to
it seem to be more recent (PWGmc. or even language-specific).
Piotr