Odp: [tied] Bear, eagle

North Germanic seems to like those u-extensions, but English and High German do things both ways (ern : bear). Hittite hasn't got anything like *-n-u- in the "eagle" word. It is a consonantal stem there, with a Nom.sg. that looks slightly odd, but if the -s is an analogic embellishment, it's just like homo : hominis.

Piotr

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Subject: Re: [tied] Bear, eagle

Aha. But what I thought was: original nothing/n stem, English generalizes the nom., North Germanic generalizes the oblique form, which would bring the PGmc inflectional paradigm of 'bear' and 'eagle' in line with the Hittite inflectional paradigm for 'eagle'? Question 2: Has the 'eagle' anything to do with that *arya- word (cf Dutch 'noble-eagle')? Highness and such? Torsten

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