Re[4]: [tied] Nori

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 60012
Date: 2008-09-14

At 12:37:13 PM on Sunday, September 14, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>

>> At 4:09:16 AM on Sunday, September 14, 2008, Arnaud
>> Fournet wrote:

>> [...]

>>> Calvert Watkins confidently postulates Common Germanic
>>> *kiltham.

>> Where?

> The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
> Edition 1979 : p. 233 child.
> This is my usual reference on English.

By the 3rd edition he no longer does so: he traces it back
only to OE <cild>. The same goes for the 4th edition, which
is available online at <http://bartleby.com/61/>. (The
entry for <child> may be seen at
<http://www.bartleby.com/61/13/C0291300.html>.)

Brian