18-07-2016, 08:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-07-2016, 08:37 PM by ThomasCoon.)
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a Middle High German variant of the adverb You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. meaning "quickly". MHG manuscripts / printed texts did not include the circumflex accent (in the same way that Roman inscriptions did not include the macron), but Karl Lachmann standardized Middle German in the 19th century and wrote versions of MHG texts with that diacritic.
From A History of German by Joseph Salmons (2013), page 181-182:
"The 'Middle High German' language we typically see in non-technical editions, such as literary anthologies, is often significantly different from the language of written texts with regards to how sounds are represented in writing. This ultimately goes back to the practices of 19th century editors. In particular, following the models he followed from the editing practices of classical philology (so it's said), Karl Lachmann produced influential editions of many MHG words through the early 19th century. Unwilling to simply take the written record at face value, Lachmann worked hard to 'improve' it, following the practices of the 'best' manuscripts, and introducing spellings that are unknown from the manuscripts ... The features of this variety include regularization of highly variable but equivalent spellings like f versus v and introduction of a circumflex (^) to mark long vowels, something known but uncommon in the actual manuscripts"
Either way I agree with -JKP- (and Anton in his blog post) that there is a dot between "gaf/s" and "mich". Since all the other "m"s have an ascender - and the one in "mich" doesn't - I think it belongs with the "mich". The idea of "geismi[l]ch" would make perfect sense and I could see how "gas" may actually be "geis." It would also make sense linguistically: "so nim geismi[l]ch" is the most clear and logical sentence that we've constructed. There are also linguistic rules that explain the missing "L" in milch.
From A History of German by Joseph Salmons (2013), page 181-182:
"The 'Middle High German' language we typically see in non-technical editions, such as literary anthologies, is often significantly different from the language of written texts with regards to how sounds are represented in writing. This ultimately goes back to the practices of 19th century editors. In particular, following the models he followed from the editing practices of classical philology (so it's said), Karl Lachmann produced influential editions of many MHG words through the early 19th century. Unwilling to simply take the written record at face value, Lachmann worked hard to 'improve' it, following the practices of the 'best' manuscripts, and introducing spellings that are unknown from the manuscripts ... The features of this variety include regularization of highly variable but equivalent spellings like f versus v and introduction of a circumflex (^) to mark long vowels, something known but uncommon in the actual manuscripts"
Either way I agree with -JKP- (and Anton in his blog post) that there is a dot between "gaf/s" and "mich". Since all the other "m"s have an ascender - and the one in "mich" doesn't - I think it belongs with the "mich". The idea of "geismi[l]ch" would make perfect sense and I could see how "gas" may actually be "geis." It would also make sense linguistically: "so nim geismi[l]ch" is the most clear and logical sentence that we've constructed. There are also linguistic rules that explain the missing "L" in milch.
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