17-03-2026, 11:42 AM
- The cutoff point for Althochdeutsch is given as 1050. There's half a millennium between whatever was relevant then and 15th century.
- Mittelniederdeutsch is relevant if one argues the dialect is Middle Low German. It would also be useful to see how this is attested.
- For the 13th century attestations, I explained how spelling conventions changed from then to the 15th century, and how this is relevant for word-final long-s.
My confusion came from how you presented all the "gas" attestations as evidence, while they are not all the same word... The occurrence and spelling of some form of "gehen" as "gas" is not relevant for the argument that it could be a contraction of "gahes".

