Re: [tied] Saupe < župan (Re: Schöffe I)

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 67325
Date: 2011-04-06




From: Torsten <tgpedersen@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 6:12:54 AM
Subject: [tied] Saupe < župan (Re: Schöffe I)

 



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "t0lgsoo1" <guestuser.0x9357@...> wrote:
>
> >You'd have to argue that *smei- = *smeu-
>
> At least in modern German: High German -eu-/-äu- = South German
> -ei-/-ai- (e.g. Feuer, Häuser, Streu, neu, Leute, teuer, heuer
> v. Feier, Heiser (cf. Sennheiser), Strei (cf. Streisand), nei,
> Leit, teier, heier...)
OK.

***R OK, that explains in part the US Midwestern pattern of bastardization of German names in which <eu>  is /ay/, <oe> is /ey/, <ue> is /iy/