Re: R: Re: Icelandic umlauts.
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 24, 2000, 10:22 |
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At 15:27 23.6.2000 +0200, Mangiat wrote:
>You said that -ur does not affect the stem, but you have katt+ur = köttur.
>How's it possible? AFAIR, the ending in Old Icelandic was directly -r (OI
>dagr > MI dagur), am I right?
Because in some words it is a fairly recent epenthetic vowel, and in others
it is inherited, while in still others an inherited -u- disappeared, but
then they got the epenthetic vowel...
madr < mannr < mannz < *mannaz
koettur < koattr < < *kattuz (Latin loan?)
Old Norse forms:
N koattr < *kattuz
A koatt < *kattu
D ketti < *kattwi
G kattar < *kattoz < *kattwoz
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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