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| Title: | Another Frisianism in Coastal Dutch: <i>Traam, Treem, Triem</i> ‘Crossbeam’ |
| Author: | Michiel de Vaan |
| Institution: | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics |
| Linguistic Field: | Historical Linguistics |
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Dutch Frisian, Eastern Frisian, Northern Mainfränkisch Plautdietsch Frisian, Western |
| Abstract: | The dialect geography and etymology of Dutch, Frisian, and German trVm(e) ‘crossbeam’ suggest that western Dutch triem continues West Germanic ‑ǣ-, which underwent vowel raising to /i./ as in Frisian. Thus, Dutch traam beside triem belongs to an established group of Standard Dutch words showing /a./ next to /i./ from West Germanic ‑ǣ-, such as schraal vs. schriel. It is argued that the survival of words in /i./ in the coastal dialects of Dutch fits into recent theories that Standard Dutch is the result of language contact between medieval Frisian and Franconian. |
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This article appears in Journal of Germanic Linguistics Vol. 22, Issue 4, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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