Re: BITUMEN was IS PIE * DERU EXCLUSIVELY INDO-EUROPEAN ?

At 5:29:44 PM on Sunday, January 27, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 4:57:14 PM on Sunday, January 27, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

>> [...]

>>> And btw Sw kåda "resin"

>> NIc <kvoða>, OIc <hváða> 'glue, lime, resin'.

> How does that add up? AFAIK the development hw- > kv- (>
> k-) is otherwise only found in Norwegian, not in Standard
> Swedish. Or are you hinting that because of the variants,
> the word must be a loan?

Sent the wrong version by mistake.

Cleasby & Vigfusson give both <hváða> and <kváða> and take
<hváða> to be the original. Their reasons aren't clear; the
wording suggests that <hváða> may be more common, but it
also appears that they want to relate the word to Goth.
<hWaþo> 'foam'. The modern Scand. words all clearly go with
<kváða>, however, and that's what I meant to write. (That's
also the word found in Pokorny and in Köbler.)

Brian