On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:42:49AM +0000, Haukur Thorgeirsson wrote:
> Rob reit:
> >I have a quick question about the verb "koma". It is
> >listed in Lesson 3 in the form 'koma, køm.' However,
> >my dictionary "A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic"
> >has 'koma, kem.' Is this a misprint? or can it appear
> >either way?
> You can relax:) As so often happens both forms are correct.
> The form of a word is a function of the four-dimensional
> coördinates of its writer.
Now, there's still another opinion *g*. In a book "Altnordisches
Elementarbuch" by Friedrich Ranke and Dietrich Hofmann, they say
"past kom '[I] came' has o < wa. Pl. kómum '[we] came' ... with
ó by strengthened u-Umlaut, besides that analogous forms such as
kvómum, kvámum (with v as in the optativ kvoema 'käme' [dunno
how to form a past optativ in English] etc.)"
Í friði,
Hannah.
PS: Is my greeting gramatically correct? *g*
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