Re[6]: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

At 12:58:29 AM on Thursday, February 14, 2008, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 12:16:55 AM on Thursday, February 14, 2008, Rick
>> McCallister wrote:

>>> What peaks my curiosity is why words with glottal stop
>>> in Scandinavian were borrowed into pre-Finnish with /k/

>> Examples? In other words, how do you know what words in
>> NGmc. had glottal stops?

> Presumibly it was proto-Germanic at the time

> pre-Finnish kaska-
> from same root as English ash

I'm not aware of this *kaska-, and a bit of quick searching
turns up nothing except Finnish <ahku> 'ash ball'.

Brian