Re: Gemination in Celtic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Gemination in Celtic
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> ok but akouter is from Latin,
> *smakk- acquired a prothetic vowel in standard French
>
> but perhaps not in N. French.
> Check it out
> How does N. French treat Gmc toponyms beginning in sC-
> (C for any clustered consonant)?
> Note that the Norman French changed the endearing name
> of Snottingham into Nottingham --or so I've read, and
> I think there was a Stuttingham > Tuttingham (vel
> sim.)
> So if Norman French did something similar in England,
> something analogous may have occured in N. French.
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> Ecuires < skura (Saxon)
> Etaples < stapel (Dutch)
> Escalles < skali
> Estournel < strumel
> Estrun < strom
> Escobecques < skaldu-bek
>
> There are clear examples
> with a e i o ou
> that initial vowels never fall.
>
> Arnaud
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Schelde > Escault.

OK, so we don't know.
Isn't there some text on your dialect (Picard?) you can get hold of?
There must be libraries in France.


Torsten