Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 63032
Date: 2009-02-15

I forgot to say that I lied when I said I've never heard Danish: I
forgot that I did watch a Danish film with English subtitles about
eight years ago entitled "Babettes Gæstesbud" or the like ("Babette's
Feast"). I don't remember much except that there was a very beautiful
redheaded Danish woman in it, the feast consisted of turtle soup, and
they made ølebrød. I don't remember much about how Danish sounded, it
sounded pretty "normal" as far as foreign languages go, i.e. not very
distinctive like Swedish; but I do strongly remember that "ølebrød"
sounded more like "ølebrøl" to me. I know that <d> in this position
is pronounced [ð] in Danish, but it didn't sound like an English [ð]
to me, it sounded like an [l]. What is ølebrød?

Andrew