Re: Identity of the 'language of geminates'

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

>
> At 6:02:05 AM on Saturday, October 18, 2008, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > The presence of perte "beat" in Jysk (where because of p-
> > it must be substrate, it can't be Germanic) and kwarthæ
> > "brim, edge" in ODa. is suspicious.
>
> The presence of *kwarthæ in ODan. hasn't even been
> established yet.

*-wa- > *-wo- > -o- is dialectal in Danish
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/35341
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/58907
(at the bottom)

But the presence of *kwarth- in 'Scandinavian' has, and that's what
mattered.


Torsten