[tied] Re: Thuringen

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

> The Slavic word was borrowed at a time when the Germanic form was

still *þiud- (Slavic speakers substituted *tjud-, since their
language had no /þ)

I wonder why they haven't substituted *tjUd-? Slavic *u must have
been still [au] or at least long/tense [u:] at the moment.

Sergei