Re: pronouncing "r" ? - Is 'draumbr' Old Swedish!?

From: Haukur Thorgeirsson
Message: 3645
Date: 2003-09-20

> > Actually that's a very natural phonetic development and one
> > that did indeed take place in at least some dialects of ON.
> > For example what we have in standardized Old Icelandic as 'draumr'
> > occurs in Old Swedish as 'draumbr'.
>
> No, Swedish had lost the au-diphtong before Old Swedish time,
> so 'draumbr' can't be Old Swedish.

*sigh* Very well, I meant to say Old Gutnish. It is interesting,
though, that the 'b' should survive even after a svarabhakti sound
has been introduced between the 'm' and the 'r'.

KveĆ°ja,
Haukur

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