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

At 10:10:53 PM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, Andrew Jarrette
wrote:

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

>> At 8:21:00 PM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, Andrew Jarrette wrote:

>> [...]

>>> Not to mention also <ge:stende> for <y:stende> (in
>>> Bosworth-Toller; meaning not given),

>> Looks like the pres. part. of <y:stan> 'to storm, to
>> rage'.

> Yeah, I thought so too, only <y:stan> comes from *u:stjan
> (< *unstjan) related to <y:st> "storm, tempest,
> hurricane", like OHG <unst> "storm, gale, whirlwind". One
> would not expect the diphthong <i:e(st-)> from this [...]

Napier took it to be an error for <estende> /e:stende/, with
Kentish /e:/ for /y:/. Apparently there are two closely
related mss., probably copied from a common source, one of
which has <gestende>, the other, <ystende>.

Brian