[split] Discussion of f116v interpretations by Anton Alipov

[-JKP-]

.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".

OK, that's important. But anyway written examples would be confirmative, without them "mi(l)ch" is just a working hypothesis.

In the meantime I reviewed the "gasmich" in the light of the suggestion (which I share) that there is no space, as well as your and Helmut's approach to look for a single fitting word. Indeed, a single fitting word would be better than assuming the non-existing space.

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One argument against the ass is that "Misch" for "ass" is Northern, while, as I understand, "gas" for "goose" is Southern?!

The word gas can also be northern (for goose). In the 15th century, the southern Scandinavians inhabited portions along the coast west into Normandy, east into eastern Europe, and parts of Saxony, and gås meant goose, with the accent somewhat erratically applied (taking on several different shapes depending on the scribe). The Lombards (in what we now call Lombardy and northern Italy) may also have used gas/gås for goose at the time, since they were also southern Scandinavians (I haven't had time to double-check whether the Lombards used gås and it's difficult to do so because they spoke a blend of Germanic and Italic by that time).