Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/kaupijaną
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Florian Blaschke in topic German merger
German merger
editI don't think this would have merged, as umlaut would have distinguished them. That said, the umlauted form does exist in German, but is probably nonstandard. I remember hearing it in the parody song "wir käufen alle bei ALDI". —CodeCat 17:22, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
I made a post in the TR. —CodeCat 17:28, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
- Duly noted. Thanks ! Leasnam (talk) 17:47, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
- @CodeCat: I'd be wary of relying on that parody song, and suspect that wir käufen is not a genuine dialectal form (or if so, is a very late secondary formation), unlike du käufst, er/sie käuft, whose umlaut can easily be analogical after du läufst, er/sie läuft, and then does not reflect anything old. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 20:52, 10 March 2021 (UTC)