From: stlatos
Message: 68118
Date: 2011-10-20
>He didn't mention cases such as * waizda- 'woad'. Also, at:
> He's also hindered by attempting to find a regular rather than optional expl. at:
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> http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/books/piep09.html
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> he says:
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> "
> In chapter 7 we have seen that in some verb forms reflexes of laryngeals were preserved in PGmc. as continuants. If e:2 developed from e plus reflex of laryngeal (written Z below), at some time in early Gmc. there were found side by side forms with a pattern: leZd- and le:2d. Besides these there were words of the pattern: mizd-; the allophone of /i/ before /z/ was apparently very low, see Twaddell, Language 24.147. The allophone of the /i/ in mizd- was then very similar to that of leZd. Thus on the pattern
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> leZd- : le:2d
> mizd- : x
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> alternate forms with me:2d were made. As we might expect from such an analogical development, only a few such forms were made, and beside these survived the original forms. We find only those cited above, and OE ce:n, OHG kien from *keznos, cf. Russ. sosná `pine' and MLG he:de beside OE heorde, MDu. herde `tow'.
> "
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