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

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 61329
Date: 2008-11-03

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "jouppe" <jouppe@...> wrote:
>
> Juutti/Juuti- is a perfectly regular loan from an old (eastern) norse
> form jut- where eu- has already (appr. a.d. 800) undergone the accent
> shift.


No need now for anyone to answer my question about the origin of the
/j/ in the Scandinavian names for the Jutes, or the forms <Jylland> or
<Jysk> (although why do these have <y>?), I hadn't seen this message
when I asked it.

Andrew