I have added a sound file of ON 'dagr' (and a corresponding Modern
Central Jamtlandic version - 'dag') under

Files > Sjuler


Best regards,
Sjuler



--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Haukur Thorgeirsson
<haukurth@...> wrote:

> Hinn 23. júní 2004 lét William Calhoun þetta frá sér fara:
> > What is the pronunciation of a medial g as in the word eigi? How

does this

> > differ from the pronunciation of an intial g as in the word garðr

or the

> > double g in gløggt or gløggsær? What are the rules that govern

the

> > difference in the pronunciation of the letter g as its position

changes in a

> > word.
>
> A somewhat thorny subject. The modern pronunciation of these
> words would look like this in something resembling IPA:
>
> eigi [ei:I]
> gløggt [klöXt]
> gløggsær [klök:sai:r]
>
> Thus, in the first word the 'g' has effectively disappeared
> after being palatalized. In the second word the 'g' is a
> fricative. In the third it is a long stop.
>
> In the Old Icelandic stage the 'g' is assumed to have been
> voiced in most or all positions. It is also assumed to have
> been present in words like 'eigi' as something like a semi-

palatalized

> voiced fricative (not quite [j]). A word like 'dagr', on the
> other hand (nowadays pronounced [ta:GYr]) will have been something
> like [daGr] if we let 'G' stand for 'gamma'.
>
> I suppose this is a bit muddled but I have neither the books
> nor the time for a better reply now.
>
> Kveðja,
> Haukur