Re: Gemination in Celtic

On 2008-04-02 00:17, tgpedersen wrote:

> Actually, I was Totte, quite on my own initiative, if I'm to believe
> my mother; Danish, Norwegian and German do not like English Dutch and
> Swedish have a fixed system of proper vs. hypochoristic name; in
> Swedish the hypochoristic name for Torsten is indeed Totte. However,
> the Scandinavian languages have þ- > t-, English doesn't.

Anglo-Saxon children likely did. We have <Teoda>, <Tetta> etc. from
names like <Þe:odmund> or <Þe:odbriht> (a bit like Theodore "Teddy"
Roosevelt).

Piotr