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==Skundavisk== | ==Skundavisk== | ||
===Etymology=== | ===Etymology=== | ||
From Middle Skundavisk ''dur'', from Old Skundavisk ''duru'', from Halmisk ''duru'', ''duruŕ'', from Proto-Germanic ''*durz''. Originally a consonant-stem, the word shifted to an u-stem early in Halmisk, probably to avoid the direct contact between the similar sounding letters ''r'' and ''ŕ''. As the original consonant-stem and u-stem noun classes merged in Late Old Skundavisk, this shift | From Middle Skundavisk ''dur'', from Old Skundavisk ''duru'', from Halmisk ''duru'', ''duruŕ'', from Proto-Germanic ''*durz''. Originally a consonant-stem, the word shifted to an u-stem early in Halmisk, probably to avoid the direct contact between the similar sounding letters ''r'' and ''ŕ''. As the original consonant-stem and u-stem noun classes merged in Late Old Skundavisk, this shift is now invisible and ''dur'' behaves like any modern regularly derived consonant-stem. | ||
===Pronunciation=== | ===Pronunciation=== | ||