[gothic-l] Dialects within Gothic?

[Anthony.Appleyard at UMIST.AC.UK]

It is commonly stated that Gothic {triggws} became Spanish {tregua}.
Not **{trigua}. I know that Classisal Latin short {i} very often
became close {e} in Romance languages (e.g. Latin {fides} became
Spanish {fe}); but likeliest that change had stopped by that time, or
more exactly did not happen in Spain but had already happened in the
Vulgar Latin that Roman soldiers etc brought to Spain. That being so,
how likely is it that one branch of the Goths pronounced the word as
{treggws}?


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