Gothic ‹ggw›

• Authors: Magnús Snædal
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The paper deals with the orthographic cluster ‹ggw› in Gothic and the question if it denoted both /ngw/ and /ggw/ or only the former. The paper concludes that internal evidence only points to /ngw/ and that external evidence cannot be used to support double pronunciation of the cluster.

Keywords

PL

historical linguistics; Gothic ponology and phonetics; Holtzmann’s Law; ‘Verschärfung’; ggw

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 128

Dates

published

2011

online

2015-03-05

Contributors

author

Magnús Snædal