From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61244
Date: 2008-11-02
--- On Sun, 11/2/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
. . .
>
> We don't know much about the Burgundian and Vandalic
> languages; the
> idea that they are East Germanic is purely geographic. I
> don't want to
> change the meaning of the words 'Goth' and
> 'Jute', I am just proposing
> that they were once the same word and designated probably
> just one tribe.
>
>
> Torsten
Okay, so you need some kind of ad/sub-strate in Juteland to account for /g/ > /y/ --which also presupposes that /u/ > /ü/ or /yu/. But once you did have *güt or *giut, you can argue that Anglo-Saxon , which originated nextdoor changed gi, ge > /y/.
But if that's so, then Angle or Saxon could fill the bill as substrate of Jute.