(17-03-2026, 09:28 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Torsten: regarding gans milch, it's expected to find this written with a space, and maybe also without a space in other cases, why not? My point is that whatever "gasmich" is supposed to be, our best bet is to read it as one word. There is manuscript-internal evidence that the marginalia writer uses short-s word-finally.
About the attestation: how would you translate the sentence? Do you think the best reading is as "quickly"?
This is a misunderstanding. I do not read "gâs" with circumflex and long-s in the same way as "gas" without circumflex and short-s. I never claimed that this specific "gas" in Folz means "gâhes" (swiftly). I presented it as a counterexample for the spelling — the form "gas" with a short-s exists in a 15th-century text. My point was the existence of the letter sequence, not the meaning in this particular passage.
My arguments for "gâs" as "swiftly" rest on separate evidence:
1) The Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch lists "gâs" as a contracted form of "gâhez" (swiftly, at once): You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
2) The Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch has a separate dictionary entry: "¹gâs, gâes, adv., s. gâ, schnell, rasch, plötzlich, jäh." You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
3) Three instances of "gâs" with circumflex and long-s from "Athis und Prophilias," a verse romance preserved in a manuscript from the third quarter of the 13th century in Hessian-Thuringian dialect (Berlin, Staatsbibl., Nachlass Grimm 196; Krakow, Bibl. Jagiellońska, Berol. mgq 846; edition: Kraus 1926; Handschriftencensus: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).