Re: Intergermansk
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 27, 2005, 0:41 |
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Gary Shannon wrote:
> >
> > >I have a copy of the opening of the Pater Noster in
> > the 1902 version:
> > >Vio fadr hu bi in hevn,
> > >holirn bi dauo nam,
> > >dauo reik kom,
> > >dauo vil bi dun an erd,
> > > as it bi in hevn.
> >> --- "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...> wrote:
> > Ouch... looks odd (especially that "dauo"). Just
> > glad that it's apparently
> > long dead already :)
>
> I just saw the "dauo" as a minor variation of "thou"
> and it seemed quite natural to me.
>
..and presumably -o marks the possessive (vi/o, dau/o).
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