Re: Identity of the 'language of geminates'

At 3:58:53 PM on Saturday, October 18, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 6:02:05 AM on Saturday, October 18, 2008, tgpedersen
>> wrote:

>> [...]

>>> The presence of perte "beat" in Jysk (where because of
>>> p- it must be substrate, it can't be Germanic) and
>>> kwarthæ "brim, edge" in ODa. is suspicious.

>> The presence of *kwarthæ in ODan. hasn't even been
>> established yet.

> *-wa- > *-wo- > -o- is dialectal in Danish

Irrelevant to the point that I was making. I was not
objecting to the details of the derivation; I was pointing
out that you've provided no reason to think that the Scand.
words aren't borrowed from MLG. This is still the case.

Brian