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norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Patricia Wilson"
<originalpatricia@...> wrote:
>
> I will also see what Faarlund has to say of it - must be something
there for
> sure
> Kveðja
> Patricia
I'm not sure if Faarlund does have anything on this; his book is more
about syntax (use of cases, word order, etc.) than word-formation. I
see he lists 'hengja' "to hang" though, the causative from 'hanga' in
his introduction to the morphology. At a much earlier stage in the
language, before written manuscripts, the causative verbs that were
formed in this way all had -j- before between the root and the ending,
as in Gothic, but by time Old Norse came to be written down by
scribes, this -j- only survived after short roots (e.g. setja < Proto
Nordic *satjan), and after velar consonants, /k/ and /g/, to show that
these were palatalised (e.g. hengja < Proto Nordic *hang(i)jan;
drekkja < Proto Nordic *drank(i)jan).
LN