Re: Daci

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:21:34 -0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
> >Probably in Dutch <Duits> "German", pronounced approximately

<däüts>,

> >earlier <döyts> (Dutch speakers are welcome to protest here).
>
> Is [ü] the same as [y]? The diphtongs /Ei/ (ij, ei), /Öü/ (ui) and
> /Ou/ (ou, au) have a tendency to open their first element towards
> [äi], [Äü] and [Au] (while the monophtongs /e./, /ö./ and /o./
> diphtonguize towards [ei], [öü] and [ou]). The middle Dutch
> pronunciation was [dü:tsk] or [dü:tsx], ultimately from *Tiudisk-.

/y/ was in this case meant to represent a consonant. BTW, Danish has
borrowed two non-currencies from Dutch: stuiver > styver, but duit >
døjt, thus two different stages of the development of Dutch. Both
used in "not a ...".

Torsten