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Gothic Initial pl-

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

George Nordmeyer
George Nordmeyer*
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Yale University
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Abstract

[Goth, l- is to be regarded as the product of an assimilation of fl- > -. By this we obtain wanting etymologies for words like Goth.liuhan etc.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 11 , Issue 3-Part1 , September 1935 , pp. 216 - 219
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Copyright © 1935 Linguistic Society of America

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1 Similarly, Zupitza, Germ. Gutt. 131 assumes a phonetic change PGmc. fl- > Goth. ∗f- > Goth. l-.

2 Braune, Got. Gramm.10 §221; Jacobson, ZfvglSp. 47.84.

3 Gaebeler, ZfdPh 43.30.

4 Gabelentz-Löbe, Ulfilas, Prol. xx, not. 57 et 58.

5 Bernhardt, Vulfila, Einl. xlvi, xlviii.

6 Bernhardt xlvii.

7 Gabelentz-Löbe xix ff.; Bernhardt xxiv f.

8 As to marikreitum, cp. Behaghel, ZfdWf. 4.250 f.; Loewe, ZfvglSp. 40.550 ff. A similar phenomenon is taken up by Rice, Language 9.87 f.

9 Streitberg, Got. Bibel, Einl. 25 ff.

10 v. Grienberger, Untersuch, z. got. Wortkunde 216 (Sitzungsberichte d. Akad. d. Wiss., Wien, 1900); AfdA 27.128; cp. also Schönfeld, Wörterb. d. altgerm. Pers.-Namen s.v. Flaccitheus.

11 Cp. Wrede in the grammar to Stamm-Heyne's Ulfilas §2.