Re: Why there is t- in German tausend "thousand"?

From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 71568
Date: 2013-11-12



2013/11/6 Grzegorz Jagodziński <grzegorj2000@...>
 

Germanic *th yielded d in German. So, we would expect *dausent "1000" (cf. Eng. thousand, Old Saxon thu^sundig etc. (+ attestation of t- in Balto-Slavic). Dutch duizend is regular, as well as OHG du^sunt is.

 

*Bhr.: OHG also tu^senttu^sunt beside thu^sunt, thu^sont du^sont, du^sent, du^sint, inflected NA thusunta, D thusuntin, thusonton, dusonton, dusuntun; Late OHG tu^sunt; MHG tu^sunt tu^sint  tu^sent beside du^sent, plur. tu^sent, apocop. tu^sen, Late MHG tu^sung, tu^sinc (Alemannic), tu^seng, tu^si^g