[Spellyans] y-umlaut in 'Beunans Meriasek' ?

[Owen Cook]

Or could [jIz] not have simply been written as <ys> as well as <ijs>
and <yys> and <yes>? I mean, do we see many spellings like <ijs> or
<yys> for ordinary [Iz]? And do we have any evidence from Lhuyd of the
pronunciation [Iz] for words like passyes?

Though free variation between [jIz] and [Iz] is certainly possible, I
tend to agree with Ray in privileging [jIz].

Cheers,
~~Owen