At 6:24:09 AM on Monday, July 12, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>> Dauzat offers this as one of two possibilities, the other
>> being derivation from Old French <geuse> 'gorge',
> That would be 'd3ö:z&', or?
I don't know about the length, but otherwise that could be
right for some point in the 13th century; by the end of the
century /3öz&/.
According to Pope, the sequence is /eu/ > /öu/ > /ö/ for the
vowel, with the rounding of the first element taking place
in the 12th century and the monophthongization in the later
12th and 13th centuries; the change /d3/ > /3/ is dated to
the 13th century.
Brian