Re: Gmc. w-/g-, j-,g-

--- On Mon, 12/8/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Gmc. w-/g-, j-,g-
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 5:20 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 12/8/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > > From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> > > Subject: [tied] Gmc. w-/g-, j-,g-
> > > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> >
> > >
> > > 2) the Romance languages rendered Gmc w- as gw-.
> >
> > They certainly wrote it that way
> > but did they pronounce it that way?
> > . . .
> >
> asked Rick from his Spanish immersion.
> Yes, and the Italians still do, and the French say g-, no
> matter what
> the Spanish do.
>
>
> Torsten

Actually, I was in San Salvador last week. Now I'm back in the Del o' Nowhere, as savvy travellers call Delaware.
Italians do say /gw/, the French say /g/, and so does Spanish in guerra, but gua, guo, etc. are usually /wa/, /wo/