Re[4]: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths,

At 4:11:13 PM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> --- 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. [...]

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

Not this one, no.

Brian