Re: [tied] das Wort

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 06:56:04 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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>From: Miguel Carrasquer
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>> Perhaps then Germanic (ga-)warr- "confusion" (> Pol. gwar "turmoil, fuss")? Not sure if it's in Gothic, but since it also gives Romance *gwerra "war", it was apparently available.
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>But isn't the Gmc. root *wers-/*werz-? If so, EGmc. *ga-werzan- doesn't fit.

But does it have to be East Germanic?

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