Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 9, 2003, 15:34 |
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Quoting Markus Miekk-oja <fam.miekk-oja@...>:
> >I think I know why; the Swedish term for the this stuff is _blyerts_
> (as
> >material; an individual 'lead' is a _stift_), which is from German
> >_Bleierz_ "lead ore", because graphite was confused with lead ore.
> The
> English
> >term presumably has the same origin.
>
> "Sko ja kon få låån ä blyy?" (length marked by doubling vowels) can be
> heard
> all the time here in schools, so evidently, here we use _bly_ instead
> of
> _stift_ (thoough we'ven't given it a separate plural form, ä bly,
> fleir
> bly). I suppose it's a finlandism though. (If they can divide
> serbocroation
> into three languages, couldn't we divide Swedish in two, too?)
I guess _blyy_ is neuter*? Do your 'lect perhaps have zero plural on neuters
even when they end in vowels?
* It would feel really weird for me as common, probably because of the neuter
_bly_="leaden weight (for fishing)".
Well, your 'lect seems alot closer to mine than did the "gammalgotländska"
they talked on rural eastern Gotland when I lived there in the '80s. If that
can be considered Swedish, there's absolutely no reason we couldn't consider
standard Danish as a Swedish dialect.
Andreas