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

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

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> At 2:34:52 PM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
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> [...]
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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/.
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> > 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.

In the sense that those words which don't, eg. give, guest, are
considered either paradigm regularisations or loans from ON?


Torsten