From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 61298
Date: 2008-11-03
>One more: <e:osen> beside <i:esend> and <ge:sen> "viscera".
>
> Not to mention also <ge:stende> for <y:stende> (in Bosworth-Toller;
> meaning not given), <iesca> for <geocsa> "hiccup", to illustrate the
> variation between perception as vowels/diphthongs and as consonant
> plus vowel, which could have occurred with the OE name for "Jutes",
> although to my knowledge no forms with <g-> are recorded. Could it
> not also be possible that an initial *jeut- might have merged the *j-
> with the first element of the following diphthong, through such forms
> as *jiut-, *jiot-, where it would be easy for the /j/ to be dropped?
>
> Andrew
>