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Words of the Week: U-Stems (Patreon)

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2020-10-22 00:36:54
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2023-11
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Your exclusive early Old Norse lesson this week expands your noun horizons with u-stems, some of the more historically complicated words in the language.

Busy busy week over here, and regrettably smoky. Public videos since I last posted have included the public posting of Old Norse lesson no. 14, on hafa, segja, and past participles, and a conversation with my old friend Dr. Luke Gorton on the concepts and language of magic in the ancient world (part 2 is on his channel).

Hoping you're all well out there, and grateful for your support every day,

Dr. Jackson Crawford

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Patreon vocabulary: U-stems

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Anonymous

I could hear you fine. We have two nephews in college in CO - one at Boulder and one at Fort Collins, and their mom told me they could see the glow of the fire from where they are.

Johan Petur Klüver Dam

U-stems were always my favourite. One big thing is that IIRC, it’s the only noun stem to have a full paradigm with 8 different endings: -r, -Ø, -i, -ar / -ir, -u, -um, -a (using the to me more natural case pattern of NADG). Sadly, it has been lost (Icelandic has the singular but the plural has merged with i-stems) but it’s still cool.

norsebysw
>>46753924

I think you're right, that it's the only one where you can look at any form and tell what case it is without context (except where the three-consonant rule has leveled nom./acc. sg., like in bjǫrn).