H1 and t??

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

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

>In the case of Eng. 'you', I think you're digging too deep, even though your
>statement is correct.  But the 'y' is almost certainly derived from a 'g',
>just like in Dutch: modern 'jij' (acc. 'jou') (j=y) for 2 p. sg. stems from
>'gij', the old 2 p. pl., still in use in Flanders for both sg. and pl..
>Another parallel Dutch - English: Middle Dutch 'g(h)eluw' > Du. 'geel', but
>Eng. 'yellow'. The same applies to the 'y' of  'yard' (Du. 'boom-gaard' =
>'orchard', i.e. 'tree-yard').

You're not digging deep enough.  Not only do we have Gothic ju:s,
we also have Skt. yu:yam, Gath. yu:s^, Lith./Latv. ju:s.  Dutch
g- is here a case of j- > g-.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam