Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and ScandinavianFlom, George T. (George Tobias)
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Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian
Flom, George T. (George Tobias)
Scots language; Scots language -- Foreign words and phrases -- Scandinavian
O.N. _n_ always remains, _nd_ is not assimilated to _nn_.
Cp. Cu. _winnle_.
O.N. _l_ initially remains.
Medially and finally generally remains.
O.N. _l_ after _o_ > _w_: _bowdyne_, _bowne_, _bow_.
_l_ very frequently takes the place of _w_ medially:
_golk_, _dolf_.
An excrescent _l_ appears in _gylmyr_.
O.N. _r_ regularly remains.
Disappears before _sk_ in _bask_, undergoes metathesis
in _gyrth_.
Inflexional _r_ remains in _caller_.
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