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- Examples include Latin pondō, English pound, but German Pfund; Latin piper, English pepper, but German Pfeffer; Latin tegula, English tile, but German Ziegel; Latin (via) strāta ‘paved (road),’ English street, but German Strasse; Latin catillus, English kettle, but German Kessel; and Latin coquus, English cook, but German Koch.
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Examples of West Germanic phonological particularities are: [5] The delabialization of all labiovelar consonants except word-initially. [6] Change of *-zw- and *- đw- to *-ww- e.g. *izwiz > *iwwiz 'you' dat.pl.; *feđwōr > *fewwōr 'four'. [7] [ð], the fricative allophone of /d/, becomes [d] in all positions. [8] (.
West Germanic languages, group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English, Frisian, Dutch ( Netherlandic -Flemish), Afrikaans, German, and Yiddish.
Old English developed from a set of West Germanic dialects, often grouped as Anglo-Frisian or North Sea Germanic, and originally spoken along the coasts of Frisia, Lower Saxony and southern Jutland by Germanic peoples known to the historical record as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
Dec 15, 2015 · The hypothesis that English must be classified genealogically as a North Germanic language on syntactic grounds, and that West Germanic English died out in England in the Middle Ages and was replaced by Norse, so that Middle English is in fact Norse, was first presented to the wider world in November 2012, when Jan Terje Faarlund was ...
- Kristin Bech, George Walkden
- 2016
English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.
3 days ago · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.
Nov 15, 2023 · The stem is not found in modern West Germanic languages, except for some North Frisian dialects; the dialect of Sylt attests to tem ‘to poor’, labelled as a borrowing from Danish in Möller (1916: s.v. tem). The West Germanic languages, however, show a wider spread of the root, including OFri.
