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

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angli and Saxones.
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 2:58 PM
> --- 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?
>
>
> Torsten

Some are from Dutch, but are obviously later