Re: germanic conlang
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 16, 2001, 0:22 |
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John Cowan wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan <jcowan@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: germanic conlang
>Lukasz Korczewski wrote:
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>> oh, here's a good example -
>>"to help". in english it's a weak verb but in other germanic languages
it's
>>strong.
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>
>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".
I seem to recall "holpen" cited as surviving in some Appalachian dialect or
other, perhaps late 19th/early 20th C-- but it may have been Mario Pei who
cited it, so a little suspect.......