Re: Gemination in Celtic

/þ/ is usually considered one of the last sounds
English-speaking children master --so you have Teddy
for Theodore and Dodie or Dottie for Dorothy, etc.


--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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
>
>

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