[tied] RE:Re[2]: Ene(a) [Re: alb. gji]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> At 8:36:06 AM on Monday, March 3, 2003, João Simões Lopes
> Filho wrote:
>
> > The languages were just examples, the list is not intended
> > to be complete. Jens would fit in *Ja:nis
> > (>Janis>Jenis>Jens ?)
>
> According to Danmarks Gamle Personnavne, the historical
> sequence seems to be Ionis, Ions > Iønæs, Iønis, Iøns >
> Ienæs, Ienis, Iens.
>
> Brian

Jon exists too; I had an uncle of that name. Jøns was common in the
middle ages, still exists in Swedish.
We have some doublets: through Danish stressed on the first syllable,
through German stressed 'originally': Jens vs. Hans, Niels vs. Klaus.
That's why I objected to there being only four forms.

Torsten