Re: Guyones

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> >
> >
> > Re: Guyones: There is some east Jutland dialect that has /D/
> /y/.
> > Cf Guthisbo, later Göinge Härad in Scania. *guD-? Goths?
> >
> > Torsten
>
> I'm not sure, but at least at Proto-Germanic level the development
> would look like *Gud- > *gut- (>*guT- ?). I don't know if we can
> assume /t/ or /T/ > /D/.
>
> Sergei

Not even locally? Pytheas didn't visit all of Scandinavia. There are
a lot of place names in *guD- today in Denmark, but they are all
ascribed to the predecessor of "god".

Torsten