Re: More Þrjótran

Henrik Theiling skrev:
> Hi!
>
> Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
>
>>Henrik Theiling skrev:
>>
>>
>>>I.e., the rule was probably wrong -- thanks for noting!
>>>I fixed it and the test suite still works plus 'slo:gum'
>>>also works.
>>>The new rules produce 'jaga' for 'ego:' now.
>>>We'll see. :-)  I think it could reasonably become 'ja:'.
>>
>>I think you should start from IÔ or EÔ rather than EGÔ,
>>since that is the form all Romance languages point to,
>>i.e. if we didn't know Latin (and other old IE languages)
>>no *g would be reconstructible for this word in Proto-Romance!
>
>
> Of course, that's why I drop the _g_ from the regularly derived form.
>
> I also checked the _g_-less forms in Latin, of course.
>
> Starting with 'io:' or 'eo:' is a bit tricky because of the hiatus,
> which is uncommon in PG.  So using the sound change script on such
> words often needs manual care.  Depending on how I fix it, the result
> is often also close to the current 'ja:' and, therefore, I decided
> it's quite a good choice.  You probably wouldn't reconstruct *g from
> this, would you? :-)
There was probably an intermediate stage *ejô.  Anyway I think you
can assume that and start from such a form.

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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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