From: tgpedersen
Message: 46949
Date: 2007-01-14
>Does English have instances of w-umlaut (cf the Frisian forms)?
> 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.