Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl
From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 61291 Date: 2008-11-03
On 2008-11-02 20:34, tgpedersen wrote:
> English does that for yester-day vs. Germ. gestern, yield vs. geld,
> but is this regular, or limited to a few words?
Regular, as explained by Brian, but -- more importantly -- there's no
initial glide in the Old English words for "Jute" and "Jutish". They
began with the diphthong e:o- ~ i:o- ~ i:u- < *eu-.