Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/-skapiz
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Bezimenen in topic Unusual i-umlaut
Neat how it went from being "-skap" in Old Dutch to being "-schap", but back to "-skap" in Afrikaans. - -sche (discuss) 19:07, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not sure if really "went back". The dialects of northern Holland have sk- for Dutch sch-. And in the 16th century this may have reached farther south. Afrikaans is based mainly on Hollandish dialects. But anyway. — This unsigned comment was added by 93.206.136.68 (talk).
Unusual i-umlaut[edit]
Where does the -i- in English come from? Is it some sort of double i-umlaut: pGerm. -a-(i) > Pre-Eng. -e-(i)- > OEng. -ie-? For example, the verb English shape reflects OEng. -ea- as expected? Also, why are Norse and High German forms not affected by the i-umlaut? *-skapiz is not a heavy stem (such as Proto-Germanic *gastiz, for example) so there is no reason not to expect fronting of the root vowel. Did the cluster *sk- play some special role? Bezimenen (talk) 11:55, 3 October 2019 (UTC)