From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56394
Date: 2008-04-02
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From: Brian M. Scott
Itteville (Yvelines) is <Steovilla> ~795, 850; <Theovilla>
1175; <Itevilla> 1268; <Ytevilla> ~1290. On the basis of
the early citations Morlet takes this to contain the Gmc.
name <Stadulf>; <Theovilla> then shows loss of /s-/ (with
<th> for /t/), though a prothetic vowel was added later.
Brian
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I would be rather prudent with this example of
st- > t- > it-
I believe the real name never stopped to have
a prosthetic vowel.
It's just not written in the name Theovilla.
The e > i is stranger,
I suppose it's a kind of umlaut
estevile > etvile then the i infects the e
> itvil (if we write only what's pronounced)
And Yvelines is not Normandy by the way.
You drive 15km from the Eifel Tower
and you're there.
Arnaud
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