Re: PS Emphatics

From: tgpedersen
Message: 52237
Date: 2008-02-03

> BTW, if the deverbal noun were inherited, one would predict OE
> *stra:f (with /a:/ from PGmc. *ai, similar to dra:f 'drove, herd',
> ra:d 'road') rather than *stri:f. The actually attested word does
> look like a loan.

Why? The corresponding *stri:d- (?< *strei:w-ð-) German Streit
(Finnish riita) etc shows -ei- too.


Torsten