From: stlatos
Message: 67782
Date: 2011-06-14
>If there was -u- due to C>uC in widomo, how would that allow it to experience the same effects as your *buDma- ? How old are you saying Kluge's Law is? Didn't you say bottom < PIE -mn- , too?
> 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).
>