From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42953
Date: 2006-01-15
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:11 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families)
are loans
At 9:14:57 PM on Saturday, January 14, 2006, Patrick Ryan
wrote:
> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer
>> <mcv@...> wrote:
>>> I just cited it: they (from ON þeir, replacing OE híe,
>>> héo).
>> Though possibly eased by cognate _þa:_ 'those' in Old
>> English.
[...]
> It seems to me that the explanation is much easier if we
> consider _Þa:_ to have been influenced/contaminated by
> _Þeir_.
> Is loss of ON final -r regular for _actual_ loans into OE?
Loss of inflectional final <-r> is indeed regular.
Brian
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Patrick:
Are there two or three other convincing examples you could furnish without
too much trouble?
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