Re[2]: [tied] The w-/n-/m- alternation

At 7:01:23 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 3:54:43 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, tgpedersen
>> wrote:

[...]

>>> So 'woos' occurs in Danish too, which it shouldn't.

>> Danish is exactly where its appearance *isn't*
>> particularly surprising, considering the MLG form.

> Danish hasn't loaned more Low German words than the other
> Scandinavian languages.

(I presume that you mean 'borrowed'.) I wasn't thinking of
lexical borrowing, but rather of contact-induced variation
in pronunciation, possibly starting quite early.

[...]

Brian