09-09-2016, 02:10 AM
(09-09-2016, 01:49 AM)Oocephalus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Anton:
Quote:Excellent! The cheek is the right place to write a spell if one's teeth ache. Do you have any idea why the "tintten" is "einer" and not simply "tintten"?Not really, but it sounds more like he means a specially made ink, not just any ink. At least that's what I would interpret this as in modern German, I don't know if this would have been true in the 15th century.
I agree with Helmut Winkler in that I don't see any close relation of the dialect to Dutch. I searched for the form "das Wang" in Google Books, and all the instances I found are from Bavaria or Austria.
... I'm thinking maybe Lombardy because of the way German and Italian are blended in some of the charms—this combination is very characteristic of Lombardy, which was sandwiched in between Bavaria and the northern Italian states but which was mostly (but not entirely) German- and Lombardic-speaking in the 15th century.
Old German and old Lombardic were more similar than than they are now. German has become more standardized and distinct, and modern Lombardic, because of its close association with Italy over the centuries, has been infused with many Italian words.
It's also possible that it's southern German and he just happened to know Italian (or was consulting Italian sources and kept some of the words).

