Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

At 2:34:52 PM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

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>> But once you did have *güt or *giut, you can argue that
>> Anglo-Saxon, which originated nextdoor changed gi, ge >
>> /y/.

> English does that for yester-day vs. Germ. gestern, yield
> vs. geld, but is this regular, or limited to a few words?

It's regular.

Brian