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

At 2:58:03 PM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

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

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

>> [...]

>>>> 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.

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

Indeed. The regular outcome of OE <3iefan> can be seen in
ME spellings with <3> and <y> (e.g., <yeve> 'give' and <yaf>
'gave' in Chaucer), which predominate in the South and
Midlands.

Brian