Hello everyone
Many years have elapsed since I last studied Germanic etymologies and philology (e.g. Grimm's and Werner's law, consonantic changes in the different languages and alike), so now and then questions arise in my brain, to which I'm now unable to find a reply.
Can someone please explain to me how come that in English 'herd' and German 'Herde' the consonant d has remain unchanged. Usually an English d corresponds to a German t (day/Tag, -dom/-tum, dew/Tau etc.) and viceversa to a...
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Many years have elapsed since I last studied Germanic etymologies and philology (e.g. Grimm's and Werner's law, consonantic changes in the different languages and alike), so now and then questions arise in my brain, to which I'm now unable to find a reply.
Can someone please explain to me how come that in English 'herd' and German 'Herde' the consonant d has remain unchanged. Usually an English d corresponds to a German t (day/Tag, -dom/-tum, dew/Tau etc.) and viceversa to a...
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