Niemish: Difference between revisions

*Got. ''[[wikt:𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌼#Gothic|dagam]]'' → Post-Got. ''daχam'' → ''dachą''

*Got. ''[[wikt:𐌿𐌽𐍃#Gothic|uns]]'' → ''ųs''

*P-Gmc. ''[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kunstiz#Proto-Germanic|*kunstiz]]'' → ''{{term|kųst#Niemish|kųst}}''

*Lat. ''[[wikt:amphora#Latin|amphora]]'' → Post-Got. ''amfaúra'' → ''ąfor'' → ''[[Contionary:ąchor#Niemish|ą̀chor]]''

Subsequently, simple /n/ was lost before liquid consonants /l, m, r/ with compensatory gemination of the liquid consonant:

This did not happen to geminated /n/:

There was no compensatory gemination when the syllable with the nasal coda was unstressed, as with words prefixed with ''an-'', ''in-'', ''un-'':

*Got. ''[[wikt:𐌿𐌽𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃#Gothic|unlustus]]'' → ''unlust'' → ''ųlust''

/m/ was not lost, but experienced stop insertion much as in Post-Gothic:

Early medieval Niemish had forms such as ''somar'' and ''somor'', which developed into ''sǫwr'' in the Westlandic dialect. Presumably the /b/ was inserted into the definite form ''somran'', the /o/ lowered by the /mb/ to give ''sumbran'', and the /b/ later spread to all forms of the word by analogy. Likewise, the Westlandic form developed from ''somran'' → ''sǫwran'' in a sound change more akin to that described above for /n/ with similar analogical spreading.

Nasal vowels followed by a fricative in unstressed final syllables lost their nasalisation:

*Got. ''[[wikt:𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉𐌽𐍃#Gothic|tug̃gōns]]'' → Post-Got. ''tug̃gūns'' → ''tungą̄s'' → ''tungas''

Nasals that formed the end of a root, as in ''[[wikt:𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃#Gothic|háims]]'' and ''[[wikt:𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽#Gothic|aljan]]'' were either not lost or more likely restored by analogy with forms with inflectional endings; the Niemish descendants of these words are ''[[Contionary:ham|ham]]'' and ''[[Contionary:ällin|ällin]]''.