Re: On do/tun

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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 /ü/ or as /i:/?
>
> The former (short, front, rounded). It's also general OE, so it must
> be more than a mere dialectal curiosity.

BTW where can one find on the net verbal paradigms of OE dialects
other than West Saxon (I assume the standard is)? ME and NE are OK too.


Torsten