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, 7:41 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> >
> > On 2008-11-02 20:34, tgpedersen wrote:
> >
> > > English does that for yester-day vs. Germ.
> gestern, yield vs.
> > > geld, but is this regular, or limited to a few
> words?
> >
> > Regular, as explained by Brian, but -- more
> importantly -- there's
> > no initial glide in the Old English words for
> "Jute" and "Jutish".
> > They began with the diphthong e:o- ~ i:o- ~ i:u- <
> *eu-.
>
> Which means I'd have to posit some pre-Gmc.
> *egut-/*eyut- vel sim.
> According to Snorri, the Jutes were formerly called
> Reidgotar, and
> those to the east of them Eygotar.
>
> http://runeberg.org/antiqtid/5/0039.html
> http://runeberg.org/antiqtid/5/0040.html
>
> Earlier all Danes were called Juutteja in Finnish and the
> Øresund,
> where there have never been any Jutes, to my knowledge, is
> still
> called Juutinrauma, Jouppe assured me.
>
>
> Torsten

Juutinrauma "the Jute Room"? Isn't jute furniture flammable?
So if the Jutes were once Ey-gotar, what does *ey- < egut- mean?
Because if you're starting from Eygot-, then you may have a case.
But who besides Snorri backs you up?
What doe Jouppe say about the Juut- ?