On the prehistory of Old English hlæfdige  

Oleh:

Bammesberger, Alfred

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 24 no. 3-4 (2002), page 213–219.
Topik: Etymology; Old English and Germanic; Umlaut; Inflections; Comparative Reconstruction
Fulltext: 24_03-04_Bammesberger.pdf (98.49KB)

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The preform for OE hæfdige, the precursor of lady, may be posited as Gmc. *hlaibadaigijon- (9). Its phonologically regular reflex is to be expected as *hlæfdæge at an early stage of Old English (12). The quantity of the vowel in the second syllable is indicated by metrical considerations (9), but the vowel was weakened and then represented by in writing (10). Neither e-grade *dheyg_h-> Gmc. *-deig->*-dig- (3–4) nor zero-grade *dhig_h->Gmc. *-dig- (6) of the root IE *dheyg_h-is sufficient for explaining the prehistory of OE dige in hlæfdige. The vowel in the first syllable of hlæfdige is due to the working of i-umlaut (12): In the compound Gmc. *hlaiba-daigijon- the suffixal *-ij- of the second element caused i-umlaut in the first element. The rare form hlafdige took over the vowel of the simplex hlaf (15), whereas still rarer hlefdige shows a further development of /æ, />/e/ (15).

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