Re: Development of Germanic *k in High German


"Peter Dy" <peterdy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> But the shift of /k/ to /kx/ simply didn't happen much,


That was unclear. I meant that it was restricted to the Südoberdeutsch
region. It did not happen in the other areas. Of the shifts that took
place during the Second Sound Shift, this was the most restricted.


> except for in the Südoberdeutsch region (Südalemannisch, Südbairisch, and
> Mittelbairisch.) Hence it's occurence in your Swiss German examples.
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> [...]
>> Du _kind_: StdG _Kind_: ZG _Chind_: OHG _chind_
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> But you just wrote above that OHG text show both <ch> and <k>, which is
> correct. Only texts from the Südoberdeutsch region would have <chind>.


Note that <ch> is OHG spelling for [kx].

In short, you're confusing two portions of the Second Sound Shift. There
was /k/ to /x/ and /k/ to /kx/. So it must have been /kxind/ long ago in
Zürich, and if now it is /xind/, then that's a recent development.

Peter


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