Old Prussian-East Baltic hybrid forms

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Old Prussian-East Baltic hybrid forms
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ENM. Praetorius, in his Deliciae Prussicae, cites a number of Old Prussian forms which seem to show elements of East Baltic morphology. Perhaps the most familiar of these, since it also appears in the work of Hartknoch, is kirdime 'we hear', with an East Baltic ending. In derivational morphology, we have the phrase Stas Usperklantits 'the accursed/bewitched', which incorporates the Lithuanian element -už-. Such examples are seen as reflecting a period of morphological hybridization with East Baltic (the local Lithuanian and perhaps the speech of the kursenieki) in late Old Prussian.

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2018-05-03 07:57:38
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