Re: Saying "Thank you."

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> > Date:         Sun, 26 Aug 2001 08:16:47 -0400
> > From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
> >
> > Suposedly, Danish has had a change series [t]>[d]>[D]>[d]>[D]
>intervocally
> > (any Danes to confirm/deny?).
>
>According to my reference, the developments from PIE in intervocalic
>position were:
>
>    PIE   PGc   MDa
>    [t] > [T] > [D] or
>    [t] > [D] > [D] when Verner's law applies
>    [d] > [t] > [D]
>
>Note that even though Gothic spells the [D] in the second line as <d>,
>there was never a [d] involved --- and the same applies to the
>specific Danish lenition in the third line.
Does "MDa" mean "Middle Danish"? What period does it refer to? According to
my source (a Swedish encyclopaedia), the last two changes occured in the
last few centuries. But that may be irrelevant.

>
>Danish does have defricativization of _initial_ [T] and [D] to [t] and
>[d], but those show no sign of leniting again.
>
>In fact, I think it is Swedish that has defricativization of
>intervocalic [D] --- compare Icelandic faþir ["faDir], Swedish fader
>["fAdEr], Danish fader ["f{DQ], if I got that right.
["fA:dEr] with a long [A:], please, but yes, Swedish had a [D]>[d] change
intervocally.

                                                 Andreas

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