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3 b OLD HIGH GERMAN PRIMER<br />
OE. dfid, OS. dad, deed, related<br />
to Gr. e^-aw, 7 shall place,<br />
Skr. dhama, law, dwelling-place, root dhe-, put, place.<br />
Goth. OE. OS. bindan, to bind, Skr. bandhanam, a binding,<br />
root bhendh-.<br />
g. Goth, aggwus, OS. OHG. engi, narrow, cp. <strong>Lat</strong>. ango,<br />
Gr. ayx", I press tight, root angh- ;<br />
Goth, laggs, OE. long,<br />
OS. OHG. lang, <strong>Lat</strong>. longus, long.<br />
71. tJ, d, g remained in other positions, and their further<br />
development belongs to the history of the separate languages.<br />
See 85.<br />
VEBNEB'S LAW<br />
72. After the completion of the first sound-shifting, and<br />
while the principal accent was not yet confined to the rootsyllable,<br />
a uniform interchange took place between the<br />
voiceless and voiced spirants, which may be thus stated :<br />
The medial or final spirants f, ]>, x, Xw B<br />
> regularly became<br />
tJ, tt, g, gw, z when the vowel next preceding them did not,<br />
according to the original Indg. system of accentuation, bear<br />
the principal accent of the word.<br />
The T5, d, g, gw, which thus arose from Indg. p, t, k, q,<br />
underwent in the Germanic languages<br />
all further changes in<br />
common with the ts, d, g, gw from Indg. bh, dh, gh, gh.<br />
Verner's law manifests itself most clearly in the various<br />
forms of strong verbs, where the infinitive, present participle,<br />
present tense, and preterite'(properly perfect) singular had the<br />
principal accent on the root-syllable, but the indie, pret. plural,<br />
the pret. subj. (properly optative), and past participle had the<br />
principal accent on the ending, as prim. Germanic *w6rbo ><br />
OE. weortSe, I become Skr. varta-mi, I turn', pret. *warba ><br />
OE. weartS, I became= Skr. va-varta, I have turned', pret. pi.
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