Re: Re[7]: [tied] Gemination in Celtic

How were they not homogenous? On the genealogical
trees, Rollo/Hrolf and his crew all seem to come from
Orkney and before that from W. Norway.


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

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