Talk:Old Norse Words

West Saxon "To yive" vs Mercian "To yeve"?
Hey, this is Hǽltam again and I was just wondering about something.

The other day, I was looking at Wiktionary's article for ġiefan (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giefan), which is seemingly labelled as the West Saxon OE form of the Mercian and Kentish OE ġefan (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gefan#Old_English). Ġiefan's Wiktionary page also links to Yive's Wiktionary page here (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yive#English), which also says that it's the West Country dialectal form of "to give" (thus corresponding with OE West Saxon's area?).

Seeing this, I made my (admittedly probably amateurish) attempt at updating ġefan into Modern English (which stems mostly from the Mercian dialect) and found that it seems the vowel of some forms of ġefan that had "e" in OE (like the infinitive) seemingly would've evolved into either "yeve" or "yef" (?).

If these be true, then wouldn't the Mercian ġefan have yielded something unlike "yive" in Modern English, had it survived, or did I make a mistake somewhere? Or is it possible that perhaps the "i" vowel 2nd and 3rd person singular forms would have affected the other vowels and won out in the end, thus yielding "yive" also?

Thank you in advance. --118.137.120.69 05:50, 9 April 2021 (UTC)