Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:45 am
There's a fair few examples like digged → dug, wreaked → wrought (thus making "wreak" one of English's three suppletive verbs)bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:47 amHuh, really? I’m skeptical.Darren wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:46 amI have heard that English verbs reached peak regularity in the Middle Ages and since then the trend of analogy has been more in favour of strong verbs, although I don't know where they got their figures from.bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 1:08 am (A similar example from English: the verb help used to have past tense holp, but in modern English the suffix -ed has been generalised, such that the standard past tense form is now helped. Similarly for heave, shave and a bunch of other verbs. But English verbs are complicated enough that analogy can work in the opposite direction too: e.g. bring sometimes gets past tense brang or brung, by analogy with verbs like wring and spring.)