Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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-.

Which means I'd have to posit some pre-Gmc. *egut-/*eyut- vel sim.
According to Snorri, the Jutes were formerly called Reidgotar, and
those to the east of them Eygotar.

http://runeberg.org/antiqtid/5/0039.html
http://runeberg.org/antiqtid/5/0040.html

Earlier all Danes were called Juutteja in Finnish and the Øresund,
where there have never been any Jutes, to my knowledge, is still
called Juutinrauma, Jouppe assured me.


Torsten