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Re: Lord's Prayer in Orkney Nynorn
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 3:15 pm
by Hnolt
Re: Lord's Prayer in Orkney Nynorn
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 3:58 pm
by Hnolt
Re: Lord's Prayer in Orkney Nynorn
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:00 pm
by Kråka
Re: Lord's Prayer in Orkney Nynorn
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:42 pm
by Klüver
Well, Hnolt, while that may be true, it could also just be a trick used by skalds of the time. Kinda like Nightwish did in the song Amaranth:
"cAress the one..." (instead of the proper "carEss the one...")
The Shetlandic example you give screams English influence. "lavErnee" is "totally" how I'd expect an English speaker (or maybe a Scots speaker, since I have virtually no experiences with it) to mispronounce líverni.
Re: Lord's Prayer in Orkney Nynorn
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:23 pm
by Hnolt
Re: Lord's Prayer in Orkney Nynorn
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:45 pm
by Hnolt
Re: Lord's Prayer in Orkney Nynorn
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:51 pm
by Klüver
Well, if stress was moved from short vowels in first syllables, then surely this vowel would first reduce and then disappear. I'm thinking about the Old Norse cognate to German genug: gnógr, which then later became nógr in all the daughter languages. (Unless Icelandic retains an archaic *gnógur).
Re: Lord's Prayer in Orkney Nynorn
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:43 pm
by Hnolt