Bwn wrote:

>Thanks for this information. I was trying to find some good example
>of a Norse word beginning with "y" (not the letter, but the sound of
>the first letter of English "yawn"--[j] in IPA) which is cognate with
>an Old English word beginning with the sound "y" ([j] in IPA). I was
>thinking 'gear'/"year"/'Jahr' would be a good example, but the Norse
>seems to have lost the initial consonant. Thanks, Ben.

oh, in that case:

játa - yes
jóð - youth
Jól - Yule

-Selv

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