From: Torsten
Message: 67756
Date: 2011-06-13
>Normally Danish -é- [-e?- <- -e:-] <-> Jysk -íe-
> BTW -- after *#aiH- became #íe- it should have developed a prothesis anyway -- if not v- (<*w?) then [j-], as any other ie-words have in Lithuanian. Even if not revealed in spelling (except in <jie> 'they'), it's still there (if not phonemically then at least phonetically).
>
> Cf. (dial.) vierube: ~ ierube:~, both 'hazel grouse'.
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
>
> >
> > Whatever the source of this /v-/ (there are several explanations,
> > none of them universally accepted), it is as likely to be
> > "laryngeal" as the irregular /w-/ of Modern English <one>.
> >
> > Piotr
> >