Thanks ZM, this is not the easiest stuff, but it gives a little more insight in the matter. Many of us have our little obsessions. Mine is to be pleased to see how close our languages have been in the past. So the Y has once been a G ;...

[ Similarly day (from Old English dæġ ) and way (from Old English weġ ) ]

Again I find here present Dutch words ; dag and weg.
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