Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Go

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...> wrote:

. . .
> If by <yate> you mean the dialect word for
> 'gate', it's from
> OE <geat> 'gate, door, opening', cognate with
> ON <gat> 'a
> hole, an opening'; ON <gata> 'road, way'
> is a different
> word. The 'gate' word is a neuter a-stem: *Gata-
> > *Gæt- >
> /jæt-/ <geat>. (Or a further step to /jæ&t/,
> if you prefer
> to interpret <geat> as showing palatal
> diphthongization
> rather than palatal digraphy.)
>
> Brian

So it's not a southern adaptation of Old Norse?