Re: "Irmin" and Hermes

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

> --- In cybalist@..., x99lynx@... wrote:
>
> ). But this *x was not lost in _any_ Germanic language in word-
> initial positions until rather late, although it was lenited to /h/
> in language after language. Even nowadays initial /h/-dropping is
> virtually restricted to dialectal British English. For example the
> Old English reflexes of the very same words are <here>, <ha:m>
> (modern <home>), <Hearding(as)>

> Piotr

I vaguely recall having seen in an exposition of Dutch dialects that
some very southern (ie. in France) moribund dialects of Flemish also
dropped /h/?

Torsten