H1 and t??

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Fri Apr 16 23:23:15 UTC 1999


"Eduard Selleslagh" <edsel at glo.be> wrote:

[jij ~ gij:]
>Supposing you are right (I have an open mind on this), why would it have
>reverted to j (y) in Holland
>Dutch in some rare cases, but not in most?

I don't think it did.  j- > g- in the South only.  Irregular
development (not unexpected in a personal pronoun).
The accusative <u> was clearly never *gu.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam



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