From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 63705
Date: 2009-03-30
>Right, of course. I probably meant that the ON (rising) diphthong jo: contains a long vowel.
> At 11:26:08 PM on Sunday, March 29, 2009, Andrew Jarrette
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > OE *E:or (in all other dialects) would come from *eur- or
> > *euz- or *ehr- or *ehur- or *ehwr- (and in later periods
> > also *i:hur or *ihur etc.), but no such words exist as far
> > as I know. But note that in both these hypothetical cases
> > the OE and ON diphthongs are long
>
> ON doesn't have a long/short distinction for diphthongs.
>
> Brian
>