Elsewhere I have proposed a set of rules according to which we may categorise Germanic root nouns into three chronological layers. In this article, I present a synchronic classification of all of the Elfdalian actual and potential root-noun continuants as well as their etymologies and derivational histories in light of this proposal and in order to reveal (i) some interesting aspects of the general processes involved in shifts of inflectional class, and (ii) whether or not some of these processes in Elfdalian when compared to other Nordic varieties may shed light on the cladistical status of Elfdalian within North Germanic. The analysis shows that, while those Elfdalian root-noun continuants whose ancestral forms belong to layers I, IIa and IIb generally remain stable and keep their appurtenance to the root-noun inflectional class, some of the (non-)root-noun continuants actually and potentially belonging to layer III deserve additional attention with regard to this twofold aim.

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Elfdalian 中的词根名词：分类和词源

在其他地方，我提出了一套规则，根据这些规则，我们可以将日耳曼词根名词分为三个年代层次。在这篇文章中，我根据这个提议对所有 Elfdalian 实际和潜在的词根名词连续词以及它们的词源和派生历史进行了同步分类，以揭示 (i) 所涉及的一般过程的一些有趣方面在屈折类的变化中，以及（ii）与其他北欧变种相比，Elfdalian 中的某些过程是否可以揭示北日耳曼语中 Elfdalian 的分支地位。分析表明，虽然祖先形式属于 I、IIa 和 IIb 层的那些 Elfdalian 词根名词连续体通常保持稳定并保持其从属于词根名词屈折类，