Tysk

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> From: Torsten <tgpedersen@...>
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:53 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: (unknown)
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ufnkex" <spamstorage@> wrote:
> >
> > >No, AFAIK all German dialects, plus Dutch, have *þ- -> d-; *þ- ->
> > >t- is North Germanic (plus Frisian?).
> >
> > In (all) German (dialects) P, T, K / B, D, G are interchangeable,
> > i.e. no strict rules. Hence
>
> > teutsch/deutsch,
> Oberdeutsch/Mitteldeutsch
>
> Even the Danes get in on this one: Tysk
> How did that come about?

Let me repeat mysewlf:

AFAIK all German dialects, plus Dutch, have *þ- -> d-;
*þ- -> t- is North Germanic (plus Frisian?).

Personally I think it came about this way:
Proto-Germanic *#s-, #þ-, #f- ->
German, Dutch (and Somerset) #z-, *#ð-, #v-
German, Scandinavian *ð-, #þ- -> d-, t-


Torsten