Re: Nordwestblock self-designation?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> >
> > As for etymology, how about the just discussed *yeu- (ppp *yut-),
> > which would make the Nordwestblock IE, but not Germanic (in which
> the
> > root exists only as a reflex of *yeu-g-, afaIk).
>

(On 'Jutes')

> Or how about this one: Nordwestblockese *eud- (< PIE *yut-), in the
> pl. *eud-os, Latinised as 'Eudosi' by Germanic-speaking scribes who
> didn't recognise the foreign plural (cf. Danish singulars: 'en
> clips', 'en hotdogs').
>

I just discovered that according to Hans Kuhn PIE /o/ was preserved
in Nordwestblockese, which makes it possible that it had a thematic
nom. or acc. pl. -os, which Germanic-speakers wouldn't recognise in
their -as, -ans or -a. I'm more concerned about the assumption *yu- >
*eu-, it's usually the other way round.

Torsten