Re: [tied] Re: The cat domestication happened more than 100,000 ye

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 49213
Date: 2007-06-30

At 11:07:40 AM on Saturday, June 30, 2007, tgpedersen wrote:

[...]

> BTW, note that -er suffix of Engl. gander recurs in Latin
> a:nser; [...]

<Gander> is from OE <gan(d)ra>, which has no <-er> suffix.
Watkins derives it from PGmc. *gan(d)ro:n, and <a:nser> from
*g^hans-er-.

Brian