Re: Horses' Asses and the Indo-European Homeland

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 7:53:02 PM on Friday, September 26, 2008, Rick
> McCallister wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > You also hear "God" as /gaa@.../, /gaaw@.../, etc.
>
> That reminds me of another example: Icelandic <guð> 'god'
> and words derived from it, including names like <Guðmundur>,
> are pronounced as if the element were spelled <gvuð>,
> roughly [kvYð] (where [k] is unaspirated). The older ON
> form of the word is <goð>.
>
> Brian
>

What I've read is that it is actually [gvœð] (or [kvœð] with
unaspirated [k]), as though spelt <gvöð>.

AJ