Re: [tied] Re: Estonian Swedish

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 46789
Date: 2006-12-27

At 5:59:47 PM on Tuesday, December 26, 2006, tgpedersen
wrote:

[...]

> Old Norse (ie. Old Icelandic) palatalized to gy-, ky-.

According to Haugen, written evidence for this velar
palatalization (e.g., spellings like <giera> for <gera>)
first shows up in OIc and ONorw mss. around 1250, and
perhaps a little later in OEScand.

Brian