Re: [tied] Wuz

From: tgpedersen
Message: 33504
Date: 2004-07-13

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

And that is why I have a problem with deriving /gö/ (with 'hard' /g/)
from it.

Torsten