Re: Estonian Swedish

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

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > It also occurred to me that since the development ON 'gørDa' "did"
> > > 'gjorde' makes sense as a regularisation only in a dialect that
> > pronounced at least /ky/, /gy/ before front vowels. Estonian

Swedish

> > had /gy/ in 'gjorde', but plain /g/ otherwise. That means that

that

> > dialect must have de-palatised /ky/, /gy/, like Danish did.
> >

Can't "gjorde" be a broken form rather influencing "györa", a parallel
to "gjord", girth and "gördel", girdle. Cf Hellquist p.188.

Lars