Abstract
AbstractThis paper deals with three South Germanic runic inscriptions that are highly relevant to language history. 1. The Frienstedt comb, which dates to the second half of the 3rd century A.D., bears four runeskaba = WGmc.ka(m)bam. ‘comb’. The nominative sg. marker-a< PGmc. *-azrepresents the oldest attested West Germanic dialect feature (opposite PNorse-az, EGmc.-s). 2.noruon a neckring found near or in Aalen (ca. 500) renders a woman’s bynameNōru‘the little one’. Final-uis best interpreted as nominative sg. of anō-stem; it thus reflects the intermediate stage between PGmc. *-ōand Pre-OHG-Øin later 6th century inscriptions. 3. The inscription on the Wurmlingen spearhead (presumably early 7th century) readsdorih, representing a dithematic nameDōr(r)īχ(χ)m. (< PGmc. *-rīkaz). This is the first example of Second Consonant Shift /k/ > /x(x)/.
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