Re: RV: Old English
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 13:04 |
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:15:22 -0800, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:
>> Note the vocalism: _sceadu_, not _scadu_ (AFAIK, occurring
>> in all OE dialects;
- Indeed, this was a precipitate statement. I didn't think e. g.
of 'second fronting' (Kentish etc.).
>> with a palatalizing effect of _sc_
I meant the diphthong -ea-. PGerm /a/ ( + dental + back vowel) should
yield WS /a/, shouldn't it? As in _talu_ ( > tale; sorry for possible
misspelling, no references handy).
The further change /a/ > <ea> may point to palatal quality of what was
spelled <sc>, for it resembles /u/ > <eo> after /j/ in _geong_, etc.
>Ms. Who? It's only us Caveses around these parts. ;-)
O.K., Siñorita Cabecez, lo recordaré ;)
Basilio
>Ms. Caves would say that there is a paucity of other dialects
>besides West Saxon. We have the _sc_ in Anglian, preserved
>for us in an 8th cent. version of Caedmon's Hymn, but I couldn't
>tell you offhand how it was pronounced. The "til" suggests
>Scandinavian influence, and I suspect further influence may
>have yielded an /sk/ pronunciation instead of an /S/. But
>that is pure conjecture, and I may be mistaken.
>
>
> WS A
> Nu sculon herigean Nu scylun hergan
> ...
> He aerest sceop He aerist scop
> eorthan bearnum aelda barnum
> heofon to hrofe, heben til hrofe
> halig Scyppend haleg Scepen
>
>From the Moore MS of the _Historia Ecclesiastica_, Bede.
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http://english.uq.edu.au/mc/0003/languages.html
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> from _The Gospel of Bastet_
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