Talk:steil

German etymology

Merged in Middle High German with Middle Low German steil, stegel, - @Leasnam What does that mean? Korn [kʰũːɘ̃n] (talk) 07:15, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

The wording is funny, I know. Usually, I say something more along the lines of: From gmh x, partly from goh y and partly from gml z...it's just a conflation of the two words where the conflation occurred during gmh and was inherited as such by de Leasnam (talk) 12:06, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

But what does the conflation entail? Aren't they two cognates from separate languages with exactly the same meaning? What's there to conflate? Korn [kʰũːɘ̃n] (talk) 15:28, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

There was no conflation in Middle High German. The developed steigel > steil is not unusual (cf. Getreide, Maid, Reiher). It's true, however, that the word was quite rare in MHG and only became common in Early Modern German, probably under Low German influence. According to DWB it was fully accepted as standard only by 1800. I've changed the wording a bit. 77.183.18.70 19:23, 16 June 2021 (UTC)