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This syncope probably affected the third syllable of words more generally at some point, but inflectional endings in trisyllabic words were subsequently restored in analogy with disyllabic words, so the effect of this change is mainly seen in inflectional endings were there was no source for analog...

Where the Proto-Norse ending had a short oral vowel, the medial *u is retained and the ending is lost. But this means that syncope of /u/ in bisyllabic words had to precede (or at least happen simultaneously with) the loss of word-final /a/ in trisyllabic words. Because otherwise the new form hǫfuð...

It could be that /u/ was not syncopated before /ð/ or /θ/, but this does not match with forms such as fjǫlð < *feluþu . Another explanation might be that /u/ in ultimate syllables was syncopated before syncope of ultimate /a/. That would mean ultimate-u syncope did not apply to *haubudą , and was no...

1) Given that unstressed /u/ has generally been syncopated by the Old Norse period (e.g. *winuR > vinr ), why does hǫfuð still retain /u/? Syncope after short syllables supposedly happened later than after long syllables, but the related haufuð also retains /u/. According to Wiktionary , this latter...

I'm currently investigating this topic as part of my PhD project. I hope to find evidence for the idea that in Belgian Dutch the choice between the different pronouns is still grammatically motivated (e.g. feminine pronouns for feminine lexical items), while in Netherlandic Dutch a shift to a more s...

Magb wrote:If Setesdalsk has a cousin dialect, it's the one spoken to the north-eastish of Setesdal, in the municipalities of Vinje and Tokke in western Telemark.

Is that the dialect Odd Nordstoga speaks?

I think it's quite fun reading this. I hope it won't be long till the next lecture. Two small questions: - to my ears, <er> in Norwegian sounds like [{r] or even [ar], as do other occurrences of <e> before <r>, not [E:r]. Does that make sense? - doesn't <v> represent a labiodental approximant, rathe...

If you had three lives, you could probably spend all three of them working on your project and still not reaching a point of satisfaction. I mean, creating a world, that's what nature took 4.5 billion years in the case of our own, and it's still not complete, because there is no such thing as 'comp...

The difference between a lot of hobbies that have been mentioned (for example poker) and conworlding, is that there is no end in the former. Conworlding always ends up with a product of some sort. But I'm starting to have issues with just storing my product on my harddrive. It is not a money issue,...

What about a fly on the wall? I would suppose one should use auf here. 'an', I think actually. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXwn-2f9xY Okay, that's different from Dutch, then. It's definitely 'een vlieg op de muur' (not aan , which sounds like someone has pricked it onto the wall with a pin).

3) 'an' is the preposition used for hanging things on walls where English would use 'on'. 'auf' is used for things 'on' a table though. What about something that's stuck (like with glue) to a wall? what about something that's hanging or stuck to a ceiling? I would still use an . "Keine Plakate an d...

trjō (ON) - no idea. I doubt it's "three", as that begins with þ -, not t - This is a longshot, but how about "faith"? That would be trú . Could it be the genitive plural of tré 'tree/wood'? I found a sentence in the Cleasby/Vigfusson dictionary that reads "hann tók b.[referring to some kind of fir...

Dewrad wrote:melr (ON) - "moth", I think.

Ah, I just found this page that suggests that it means 'sandbank'.

Thanks, both of you! That helps.

On his website ( http://www.theiling.de/germanic ), Henrik Theiling gives a list of words for which he applied his sound change rules for North Germanic. For most of the words, I could figure out the English translation using the (Old) Icelandic dictionaries available online, except for these: ahs (...

Qwynegold wrote:What about American Swedish?

Agricola Avicula wrote:I didn't know Mikael Agricola, so that's just a coincidence.

Really? So who did you get your username from?

It's loosely derived from my real name. Don't feel like giving a detailed explanation now, though. My bed's calling me.

http://home.hccnet.nl/leon.vogels/Scandinavia-Languages.jpg] What language is that key in? Parts of it look like Dutch to me, others like Danish, others like Swedish. (also, 68 shades of turquoise? :roll: ) It is Dutch (and I thought Agricola Avicula was a Finn :/ ). Dutch with some native terms mi...

I myself have also tried to make a map of the Scandinavian dialects, but I wanted to do it in much more detail. I stopped when I learned that almost every parish in Norway and Sweden has its own dialect variety. But if you're interested I can post the map as far as I have it. Sure. Here it is (clic...

Nice map! I think it's pretty accurate. One comment: the classification of the languages/dialects spoken around Älvdalen, Sweden (in the northeastern corner of the area you painted dark green) is heavily disputed. Some (Swedish) linguists have classified it as a form of Svealandic, others consider i...