Re: evolving languages
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 17, 2003, 13:44 |
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At 18:24 15.1.2003 -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
>think - thought, bring - brought
Actually the past form of *thenkjan used to have a nasal that was lost
before a voiceless fricative. you still have _tänkte_ in Swedish;
"brought" is _bragte_, however!
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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