Re[7]: [tied] Gemination in Celtic

At 5:01:12 PM on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> 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.

> 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 possible, but I see no obvious reason to assume so.

[...]

> And Yvelines is not Normandy by the way.

I didn't say that it was; the 'Norman' invaders were by no
means homogeneous in origin, so I saw no need to limit my
search to Normandy. If anyone cares, it's in the
Île-de-France region.

Brian