Re: Going about in circles [was: Frunza ...]

> then the fricative was hardened into *d, which has yielded High German
> /t/ in <Vater>. Note that there is excellent support for all these
> stages
>
> Piotr

The hardened [d] is also there, along with the standard
<Vater>. Namely in some dialects as well as in High German
spoken slightly influenced by those local dialects (esp.
in Mitteldeutsch, such as in Franconia, Hessen & al. +
in North Germany, in Niederdeutsch and Frisian areas):
<Vadder> [fadd&, fadda, fodda].

George