Talk:vintr

Different origins of Nynorsk vinter
I'm not sure what to do when a form has several origins, but vinter in Nynorsk may have come from both Bokmål, and the spoken forms borrowed much earlier from East Nordic. Though, I assume the wide use of vinter in Nynorsk today is mainly caused by Bokmål, so if it can only be at one place, it should be under Bokmål as a borrowing.

Regarding the Norwegian dialectal forms: They're early borrowings from East Nordic, not in the shapes they have today, but they're likely not inherited. --Eilífr / ᛅᛁᛚᛁᚠᚱ 21:46, 7 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Why do they have to be borrowings from East Nordic? Maybe the change *wintr > *wętr just did not spread as far east as these dialects? ᛙᛆᚱᛐᛁᚿᛌᛆᛌ ᛭ Proto-Norsing ᛭ Ask me anything 21:55, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * It's likely that they're borrowings because vinter is first found written in 1408, then many times after (Diplomatarium Norvegicum). The popularity of forms with -nt- today would suggest a wider use historically, which we don't find. The dialectal forms with -nt- today also reach far into the area where other -nt- rather consistently has disappeared, such as in vott.
 * Similar early borrowings were je (from jak) and vi (from vīr). They all have in common that they were not found in the earliest Norwegian written sources. Eilífr / ᛅᛁᛚᛁᚠᚱ 02:37, 8 February 2022 (UTC)