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Re: Scots.

From:Daniel Prohaska <daniel@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 7:42
One example is <window> from ON <vindauga>.

Dan



From: Tristan McLeay
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 7:12 AM





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? 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. -- Tristan."