Re: germanic conlang

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> [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]Namens John Cowan
> Verzonden: donderdag 15 november 2001 21:11
> Aan: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Onderwerp: Re: germanic conlang
>
> Lukasz Korczewski wrote:
>
> > oh, here's a good example -
> >"to help". in english it's a weak verb but in other germanic
> languages it's
> >strong.
>
> In fact "help", "holp", "holpen" survived in English until about
> 1550:  the King James Bible (1611) records an intermediate state, with
> "helped" dominating but with 5 surviving instances of "holpen",
> sometimes with "have", sometimes with "be".
In Dutch, the official/traditional form is helpen-holp-geholpen, but
unofficially, it has become helpen-hielp-geholpen, probably under the
influence of more common verb forms such as lopen-liep-gelopen (to walk).

Maarten