Re: Scots.

Tristan McLeay skrev:
> On 20.07.2008 06:59:35 Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>> On 2008-07-19 Lars Finsen wrote:
>>> Very interesting. Perhaps the solution is that Modern English dream
>>> is a borrowing from O.N. draumr "dream"?
>>>
>> No, in that case it wouldn't show au > ea.
>
> Have you got any examples of actual borrowings from ON au and what they
> become in English?
Not off the top of my head, but I'd expect them to merge
with ME /Ou)/ or /Au)/.  Mind you there were OE phone
sequences which were close enough, written _aw ow ag og_.

> Also, isn't it possible that the meanings were
> carried across to English phonetic form --- effectively a borrowing
> when the languages are so close that you can recognise equivalent
> words in other dialects.
Sure, that can happen.

/BP 8^)>
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