Re: [tied] Re: Thuringen

I think they actually substituted *-eu-, which was the closest thing to PGmc. -iu- (a falling diphthong), especially if the first element was rather high, as it seems to have been. The further development of *-eu- > *-jeu- > *-ju- took place within (still Proto-)Slavic.

Piotr

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Subject: [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

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