Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., S.Tarasovas@... wrote:
>
> Jon Galster mentions two more *d-n- river names in support of his
> theory: Düna (supposedly the "exit route" for the Danes into the
> Baltic) and Døne, an old Danish name for the Eider river, found on
> Langebek's map (whoever he is).
> To which I add: *danu- > *døn- by u-umlaut (hence ON dönsk "Danish"
> >? Polish dun´sk- "Danish" (n´ from Dania?)). In East North

Germanic

> (Danish and Swedish) (as opposed to West North Germanic) u-umlaut

is

> rare (because of regularisation of paradigms?) but does exist (Da.

sg

> barn, pl børn "child", famously *aluth- > Da. øl "bier").
>

Embarassing! I take back the stuff of the u-umlaut of ON dönsk (dönsk
tunga "the Danish tongue") proving derivation from *danu-. The u-
umlaut is part of the inflection (other forms start with dansk-),
here Nom.f.

> Torsten