Re: pottus, Genua, Durantia (was: Bart; was: Ligurian)

W dniu 2012-06-22 02:52, dgkilday57 pisze:

> Bergunda and other Norwegian OEH names with sound-shifts in
> place show that Germanic is descended from OWIE,

Including the Burgundians?

> and if ablaut-grades
> were as fickle as certain scholars think, the striking regularity of
> strong verbs in Gothic and the other old Gmc. lgs. would be
> inconceivable. The Gmc. strong classes would show a chaotic hodgepodge
> of random ablaut.

Germanic does show a lot of random variation (as well as numerous
Vernerian and/or Klugean byforms) in originally ablauting *nouns* (as
opposed to ablauting verbs). That is hardly surprising: nominal
paradigms were levelled out very early in Germanic. A late IE
amphikinetic pattern like *bHérg^H-ont-/*bHr.g^H-n.t-' could easily have
left traces of both allomorphs in hydronymic derivatives.

Piotr