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.
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Tristan.