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9. Ifarr and Inwær

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Kemp Malone  and
F. Stanton Cawley
Kemp Malone
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University
F. Stanton Cawley
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , June 1930 , pp. 626 - 628
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1930

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References

1 PMLA, XLV, 335 f.

2 PMLA, XLII, 302 f. The variation in spelling has of course no phonetic significance, since in ON., as in OE., an intervocalic f was pronounced like a v.

3 A. Noreen, Altisländische und Altnorwegische Grammatik,4 p. 101.

4 A. Noreen, op. cit., pp. 231 f. (§317, Anm. 2).

5 A. Noreen, op. cit. §222. In a note, loc. cit., Noreen says that the shift is “jedenfalls aus dem anfang der vikingerzeit bezeugt,” i.e. the eighth century. It took place earlier, no doubt, under weak stress, as the Svarteborg inscription indicates.

6 K. Luick, Hist. Gram. der engl. Sprache, I, 186 (§201).

7 Note that Heusler's examples (Altisl. Elementarbuch,2 §139, Anm. 1) both show loss of h and retention of w after a liquid.

8 Germ. *ufna- and *ugna-, *uhna- may be unrelated words, see Falk and Torp, Norwegisch-Dänisches Etym. Wörterbuch s. v. ovn.