Re: Hick

On 2008-05-03 05:16, ualarauans wrote:

> But I wonder could it be rather a loan < PGrm *xalp- (from
> *xelpan "to help")?

Me too. It's an old suspicion of mine. The only problem is the
non-attestation in Germanic of *xalpaz as an agent noun (as far as I know).

Piotr