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Article published In: Runic Inscriptions and the Early History of the Germanic Languages
Edited by Robert Nedoma and Hans Frede Nielsen †
[NOWELE 73:1] 2020
► pp. 4–20

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The Malt stone as evidence for a morphological archaism

Reconstructing the Proto-Nordic and Proto-Germanic systems of kinship terms

 | University of Copenhagen
Published online: 29 April 2020
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Abstract
The form fauþr ‘father’ on the Malt stone is normally understood as a carving error for faþur, but could very well be read at face value as a one-syllable form fǫðr, an archaic accusative singular. In a wider Proto-Germanic context, I propose that this form is part of an early levelling process of the kinship terms to one-syllable stem forms, an alternative paradigm co-existing with the classical hysterodynamic paradigm documented in the Gothic singular. This levelling takes place not only in the plural, but also in the oblique cases of the singular. In a Scandinavian context, this reading sheds light on a handful of seemingly aberrant forms.
Article outline
  • 1.The source and the issue
  • 2.The Gothic inflection
  • 3.An alternative paradigmatic reconstruction for Old Norse
    • 3.1The reflexes of archaic genitive forms in Old Norse and Old English
    • 3.2A Germanic solution?
    • 3.3An alternative Pre-Germanic paradigm
  • 4.Two Proto-Germanic paradigmatic models
  • 5.Some details from the Scandinavian development
    • 5.1Final -s or -z?
    • 5.2The later Norse paradigms
    • 5.3Some spin-off’s from the analysis: The runic forms bruþr and fauþur
  • 6.A conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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