Re[4]: [tied] Re: Gmc. w-/g-, j-/g-

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 63583
Date: 2009-03-05

At 4:32:09 PM on Thursday, March 5, 2009, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> Geezer, American English "decrepit old man', UK "dude",
> would be another candidate if we could explain the ending
> and lack of final velar

Probably kin to <guise> and <disguise>, according to AHD4:

<http://www.bartleby.com/61/5/G0070500.html>

Brian