Spoiler alert: I intend to start blogging about #EastNorse language history. Not only #VikingAge or #runic or Medieval #OldDanish and #OldSwedish, but also older #ProtoNordic and digressions into modern dialects, #Elfdalian and Fenno-Swedish. Hang on and boost if you think your followers are interested.
#eastnorse #vikingage #runic #olddanish #oldswedish #protonordic #elfdalian
”för blöutär” ’too moist’:
The dialect preserves two of the three #ProtoNordic primary diphthongs:
/ai/ as [ei]
and
/au/ as [öu]
The latter diphthong is just about the same as in #OldNorse central/back ǫu <au> [ɞʊ], which is no longer pronounced like that in Norwegian [æü] <au> or Icelandic [øü] <au>.