Johan Schalin, PhD · @iohannan
180 followers · 186 posts · Server lingo.lol

By and large preserves more of than . An exception is the verbal stem gā/*ga- ’go’, which in was used in the present tense and at times in the infinitive. Else its inflection was suppleted by forms of the verb ”ganga”.
In West Norse ”gá” is attested very sparsely indeed, and instead ”ganga” is used throughout the paradigm.
In past research there was an idea that gā could have been borrowed from , but today this is not deemed probable. 🧵👇🏻

#westnorse #ProtoGermanic #eastnorse #oldswedish #lowgerman

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Johan Schalin, PhD · @iohannan
177 followers · 182 posts · Server lingo.lol

Among dialect scholars in Finland some want to name the dialect of as the most archaic. As a researcher specialised in I willingly subscribe to that: unlike (and unlike ) no secondary diphthongisation and better preserved syllable quantity. Unlike some dialects a distinction is maintained between öi (vf. ey) and öu (cf. West Norse au) kronomagasinet.wordpress.com/o

#kronoby #vocalism #narpes #icelandic #OldNorse #fennoswedish #westnorse

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Johan Schalin, PhD · @iohannan
171 followers · 164 posts · Server lingo.lol

I attach my first introductory blog on , depicting coming topics.
I will discuss periferal Swedish dialects that originate from a more archaic East Norse than . I will also by rigorously comparing , and show that they do not derive from 8th century language similar to , but a 6th century late .
As it seems, that Mastodon does not support PDFs, so I will have to reconsider my format of any future blogs.

#eastnorse #oldswedish #westnorse #gutnish #oldwestnorse #protonorse

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