Chapter 9
Palatalization of velars in Old and Middle Dutch
Article outline
- 9.1The cluster T+K
- 9.1.1Personal names in Gard(is), Roetjar
- 9.1.2The prepositions tegen ‘against’ and jegens ‘towards’
- Regional distribution between 1200 and 1300
- Spelling the palatalization
- Explaining jegen(s)
- Distribution between 1300 and 1400
- 9.1.3
Yerseke
- 9.1.4The diminutive suffix -eken > -(e)tje
- 9.1.5
Kortgene
- 9.1.6
edik ‘vinegar’
- 9.2Palatalization of word-internal *g to (*)j
- 9.2.1The evidence
- 9.2.2Summary and discussion
- 9.3The prefix ge-/(j)e- < *ga-
- 9.4Initial j- > g-
- 9.4.1The evidence
- 9.4.2Summary
- 9.5Recent Frisian loans in North Holland and Groningen and other irrelevant evidence
- 9.5.1Not restricted to coastal Dutch
- 9.5.2
s for k in North Holland
- 9.5.3
s and j for g in North Holland
- 9.5.4Flanders
- 9.6Summary and conclusions
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Notes