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Author: Curt
Date: 2005-05-09 02:02:30
Subject: Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced?
The Old English word "wukce," from the Dictionary of Old English Corpus, is--or was--a variant form of "wicce." Can one automatically assume because of this that its pronunciation is in any way similar? Another variant is "wicci." How, by looking at such words, can one determine that they actually are variants of "wicce?" Can this be done without reading them in context? If you came across a rock with the word "wukce" on it, and nothing else, would it be possible to figure it out?
Curt
> > > Thank you, Mr. Crist.
> >
> > Do regional dialects enter into the picture?
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> Each dialect has its own sequence of regular sound changes.
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> Now, it's true that you can get loan words between dialects. "Curse" and "cuss" are historically the same word, as are "arse" and "ass". The latter variant in each pair was borrowed into standard American English from dialects that delete /r/ at the end of the syllable.
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> Sometimes the loan from another dialect can replace the native form altogether. This can make a word look like an exception to the regularity of sound change. There is actually no exception in such a case: the regular sound change is one event, and the borrowing is another event. The sound change itself is regular.
>
> --Sean
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| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | curt | 2005-02-17 01:17:43 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-17 07:34:52 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-02-17 11:55:25 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-17 18:10:50 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-02-18 01:18:42 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-02-18 01:39:03 | |
| much/mucho (Re: How is Gothic 'weihs'...) | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-19 18:47:21 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-19 19:22:18 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Peter Tunstall | 2005-02-22 16:40:19 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-25 21:36:40 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Peter | 2005-02-26 10:22:37 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-03 11:53:41 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-03 12:29:12 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-03 14:49:07 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-04 12:15:10 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Peter | 2005-04-08 16:11:26 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Peter | 2005-04-08 20:10:57 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-04-10 12:15:51 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-10 16:02:49 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-10 16:06:01 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-05-07 18:10:38 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-05-07 18:15:52 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-05-09 02:02:30 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Brian Lewis | Campbell University | 2010-07-07 00:43:06 |