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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
wrote:
>
> I wonder also whether "steg" meaning "steak" has a different
pronunciation than "eg", even though they both go back to Old Danish
e:k and ste:k, because "steg" is also the spelling of the word
for "step", and the one spelling came to have only one pronunciation
rather than two (the pronunciation of the one with -g in Old Danish
instead of the one with -k, being chosen). I must confess I am
assuming that Lars is correct about the meaning "step", and I am
assuming the forms e:k and ste:k for Old Danish -- were they eik and
steik or something similar?
> Similarly, "boeg" (I can't yet get the foreign characters) comes
from *bo:kiz while "loeg" comes from *laukam, do they not? Any
chance that that could be the reason for the divergent pronunciations?
>
The Eastern Nordic (ie. Danish and Swedish) monophthongisations /ei/
> /e/, /øy/ > /ø:/, /au/ > /ø/ took place in the 13th cent. So no (or
they would be probably different in Scanian and Swedish).
Torsten