Re: [tied] Re: On do/tun

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 46947
Date: 2007-01-14

On 2007-01-14 09:42, tgpedersen wrote:
>> We have OE dyde, pl. dydon (synchronically an irregular weak
>> preterite), which resembles nothing outside the British Isles.
>
> How is /y/ to be understood here, as /ΓΌ/ or as /i:/?

The former (short, front, rounded). It's also general OE, so it must be
more than a mere dialectal curiosity.

Piotr