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The German dialects often reveal an impressive variance in the dialect-words for the Ego-Pronoun
(I). The following variants have been found at Wiktionary's entry Ich- dialect variants. Some of
the ego-pronouns are following the rules for generating divine names by the formula:
<The Divine Name> = (Z &) <the relevant ego-pronoun> & s
or
<The Divine Name> = (D &) <the relevant ego-pronoun> & s
This rule had been identified from numerous Mediterranean languages and dialects1:
These divine names may be derived from the relevant names for Tuesday and/or Thursday,
although local patterns do not really match. Zestag however is a general Old High German root
expression. The alternative divine names (Ares, Mars) basically covered the same planet (Mars).
Examples:
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The Ego-pronouns
Combinations may be illustrated in a table.
Language / Dialect
Ego-pronoun
Hunsrck mountains
ijsch
Ziaisch-Tag (?)
Hessian dialect
aisch
Ziaisch-Tag (?)
Old Prussian
as
Ziastag (?)
Dusseldorf
ech
Luxembourgish
ech
Swabian
Bavaria (Bairisch)
East-Frankish
i, iech
Swiss German
i, ig
Old Saxon
ik
Berlin
ick, icke
iech
isch
Cologne
isch
isch, ische
isch-Trailers
In the ego-pronouns the sch-trailers statistically seem to be prevalent:
Five dialects (Thuringia Upper Saxon, Palatine German, Cologne, Hessian, Hunsrck) insert
an S-sound: isch, aisch, ijsch.
Four of these dialects (Bavarian, Swabian, East-Frankish, Swiss German) the ego-pronouns
have been reduced to an English-like simple i, which (in analogy to Middle English: i,
ich) is not written in capital letters7.
Only one dialect (Berlin's ick, icke) uses a sharp c and k, which may have been
inherited from Old Saxon ik, Old English: ic, Old Norse: ek, Hittite: uk and/or Gothic
language ik.
7 i - Personalpronomen
Tuesday
Ego-pronoun
Standard German
Dienstag
ich
Low Saxon
Dingsdag
isch, ische
Dinnstich Tuesday
iech
Yiddish
Dinstik
Gothic
Bavarian
Danish
tirsdag
jeg,
Old Saxon
*Tiuwesdag or *Thingesdag
isch, ische
Old English
Ic, ich, Y,
Zestag
Swiss German
Alemannisch
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ik
Contents
The Ego-pronouns................................................................................................................................2
isch-Trailers.......................................................................................................................................2
Tuesday (from dialect-dictionaries)......................................................................................................3
Overview of the Notes on Dictionaries and Vocabularies....................................................................4
Appendix 1 - Generating the Divine Names from Ego-Pronouns........................................................5
Language
/Dialect
Prefix EgoPronoun
Galicia
eu
Portuguese
eu
Romansh - Surmiran
ia
=Dia
Provencal
iu /
jew18
=Diu
Italian
=Di
gioved (Thursday)
dies Iovis (Thursday - Latin)
Spanish
yo
=Dios
old-English
ih
=Dis
English
=Dis
old-German
ih
=Dis19
Brythonic
i, fi 20
=Dis 21
Sicily
iu
=Diu
Romanian
eu
=Zeu
joi (Thursday)
Romansh - Vallader
Z
Di
eu
=Zeu
=Dieu
Raeto-romansh
Alemannic - Pfaelzisch22 Z
isch
=Zisch
Zischtig (Tuesday)
i(u)
=Ziu
Vulgar Latin
eo 23
=es
Oscan
ei
~Dive
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17
18
19
20
21
22
23
=Deu
s
=Deus
Jupiter
Walloon
dji
~Dju
God
Sardinian Campidanese24 -
du
~Deu
Catalan
jo
~Deu
ideally Djo
dijous (Thursday)
I / i
eau
=D
~Id
I / i
eau
Romansh - Sutsilvan
jou
~Diu
ideally Djous
Rumantsch - Grischun
jau
~Dieu - Zeu
Nimes
yiou
~Dou25
Szto de la Placto by
Antoine Hippolyte Bigot
Romansh - Sursilvan
jeu
~Diu
jeudi (Thursday)
The Short Obligatory Prayer
Walloon
Dji
~Diu
Savoy
zhe
~dzhyu, dzu
central-east (Cordon)
Savoy26
dzeu
~dzou, dz,
djeu, Dyeu
Bavarian27 (Tirol)
ech
Luxembourg
Isch, ich
Old English
ich
~Tig
aisch
~Zes
Zestag (Tuesday)
Gaelic-Manx
mee
mish
ee
ish
~Jee29
Cornish
my
~Duw
Jerdein (Thursday)
(plural jeeghyn) Day (jer) of the Gods
(plural duwow)
Welsh
mi, fi
~Duw
(plural duwiau)
Irish
~Dia
(plural dithe)
Scottish Gaelic
mi
~Dia
(plural diathan)
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