Tīa ʻtoe’ and Old Gutnish sources of long ī

Seán D Vrieland

Tīa ʻtoe’ and Old Gutnish sources of long ī

Abstract

Explanations of the long i¯ in the Old Gutnish ti¯a 'toe' (>ModGu täiå) have been put forward that posit different ablaut grades than the Proto-Germanic taihwo¯n which underlies the forms found in other Germanic languages. This is because it was thought the Old Gutnish form could not reflect the standard proto-form. This paper concludes on the basis of the parallel development of slaihwo¯n 'sloe berry', which appears as ModGu släiå, that long i¯ can in fact continue the Proto-Germanic sequence-aihw-as the result of regular sound development.

Original language	English
Journal	North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE)
Volume	68
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	183-5
Number of pages	3
ISSN	0108-8416
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
Old Gutnish
Old Norse
Phonology
Historical Linguistics
Gotland

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Tīa ʻtoe’ and Old Gutnish sources of long ī

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