[split] Discussion of f116v interpretations by Anton Alipov

[ThomasCoon]

I see your point, but one thing is spoken speech, another one is written. Here we deal with written text. So in the absence of examples argumentation towards "gasmi(l)ch" is weak. It is more probable that the scribe would omit a space accidentally (the pen just slipped, I don't know) that that he would omit a meaningful letter.

Your discourse can be developed (as I believe) in a slightly different way though. If a letter (or letters) were omitted, they were most probably omitted in the end of the word, which might have been natural for word forms (after "so nim" we expect accusative) or for variants.

Luckily, woerterbuchnetz.de supports wildcards. So for mich* we find:

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One immediate match is "miche" = "Mittwoch".

Goat's Wednesday? I don't know.

Anything else worth looking at in this list?

I see your point about the spoken/written distinction. In Middle High German, however, words were written exactly as you spoke them. If your dialect says "gas" instead of "Geis" or "Pock" instead of "Bock", then you write those forms. If your dialect says "mich" then you write "mich". I know this because I've looked at hours of Middle High German texts - a standard written language only begins after the Luther Bible.

Also, something that may be important: the Gas/Pock variants are both southern German: the Bavaria/Austria area. They may be low-central Germany but are definitely not northern German dialects.