Ljóðskifti í føroyskum: Av sama slag sum "skerpingin" í frumnorrønum og gotiskum. Frágreiðing fyri fyrst

Abstract

Between 1400 and 1600 from the last component in faroeic diphthongs (both original and — mostly — secondary diphthongs) has evolved a consonantic part, in such way that the final lahial vowel (u) appears as (g)gv (clusil plus v), while the palatal works out a (palatal) affricat. We thus get norse róa, older faroeic (in the 14. century) reu(v)a, or rou(v)a, more recent faroeic reggva or rággva (normal writing: rógva); norse búa is now biggva (normal writing: búgva; J. C. Svabo — in the 18.th century — writes: bygva); norse tíu, older faroeic: tuju, newer faroeic lujddju(norma\ writing: tíggju; Svabo vfrkesitujggju). The task is to prove that the evolution which now appears both before vowel and at the end ef monosyllables, originally only existed before vowels. The evolution in Faroeic is parallel to the »schárfung« in norse-gothic.