Re: xW/w (was: Lithuanian diphthongs)

At 2:07:40 PM on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, stlatos wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>> W dniu 2011-06-13 23:05, stlatos pisze:

>>> Why did OHG have -d- as if from Gmc -T- ?

>> NHG Wittum is also puzzling, as if from Gmc. *D. I
>> wouldn't rule out contamination with Lat. vidualitium
>> (not surprising in a legal term) and again with Ger.
>> Witwe.

> This site:

> http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/ie/germet&text_number=+++811&root=config

> gives OSx withum-lík , which I hadn't seen elsewhere.

I tracked it down, I think: <uuithumlica> glosses <dotales>
in what TITUS, Old Saxon Glosses, identifies as
'Vergilglossen in einer Oxforder handschrift', the ms. being
identified as Oxf._Bodl._Auct._F._1._16.

Brian