Re: Estonian Swedish

> > > 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.

That's possible. Two other verbs in Danish that show the same pattern,
unpalatalized present, palatalized preterite, skælve/skjalv (old) and
gælde/gjaldt, are also -VRT-.


Torsten