From: Haukur Thorgeirsson
Message: 3900
Date: 2003-11-30
> /e/ and /i/--yes, Gordon (9) mentions forms like <skipeno> for <skipinu>.It has /e/ and /o/, if memory serves.
> By the way, what does the First Grammatical Treatise show for such vowels?
> By the way, Gordon is good but very "compressed." What other words areLike fótr-foeti in what way exactly?
> there in Old Icelandic like /foeti/?
> I understand that for a-stem dat. sg. /degi/ the change is due to theNone. At least none that I know of. And yes, it's a bit forced to make
> palatal consonant +/i/ (Gordon 38). What other nouns could be given as
> examples of this change?
> Yes, for 9 and 10 it is nió and tió, with accented vowels. Maybe thisI wonder. I don't remember seeing these forms anywhere else.
> is a combination of liguistic archaeology and misprints.
> Lass's book is available on Amazon, and I bought my copy in the localPerhaps. Then again the endings /e/ and /o/ may look more familiar to
> bookstore. It is interesting and useful for the linguistically-minded
> non-specialist. As I said, there are lots of misprints, some of them
> significant. With you help, I now see that many of the OIc forms are
> not misprints, but a reflection of a different approach. Still, I think
> it would be better to give "classical" OIc forms in a book like this.
> The forms I was questioning seem better suited to a detailed discussion
> of OIc for advanced students.