Re: NATLANG: High German Consonant Shift
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 3, 2004, 16:17 |
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:11:17 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>Right now, I'm making a heavily High-German-influenced language,
>currently under the pseudonym of 'Latinesque'(I've made it once before,
>and am now redoing it, because the other one was not nearly
>realistic/rigorous enough). I'm not sure whether the name will stick
>or not. Anyway, I'm trying to come up with a background history to go
>with the language, as I find the current I little lacking.
>
>Basically, I need some estimated dates for the High-German consonant
>shift. Within a century should do fine.
The book I have at hand, an introduction to Middle-High-German, gives two dates:
The name of the Hunnish leader Attila (died in 453) has been affected
(Etzel), so at his time, the Second Germanic sound shift hadn't occurred
yet. There's the Wurmlingen lance peak from the beginning of the 7th century
with a shifted name: IDORIH (not -rik); and Langobardian law book 'Edictus
Rothari' from around 643 also shows shifted words, e.g. _sculdhais_ (cf.
Anglosaxon _scyldhaeta_).
So it might have happened in the 6th century.
g_0ry@s:
j. 'mach' wust
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