From: tgpedersen
Message: 61011
Date: 2008-10-19
>If I use 'likely, probably' I am not convinced, I still have doubts.
> At 3:52:12 PM on Saturday, October 18, 2008, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Hellquist's text
> > http://runeberg.org/svetym/0462.html
> > is
>
> [...]
>
> > Nära besl. med det senare är sannol. mlty. (hals)quarder,
> > querdar m., rand, infatt- ning, varifrån sv. dial. kvard,
> > bred fåll, linning, no. kvarde, ä. da. korde; i så fall
> > egentl.: hals, sedan: halskrage o. d., alltså med samma
> > betyd.-utveckling som i krage.'
>
> > sannol(ikt) = likely.
>
> Exactly.
>
> > Hellquist doesn't seem too convinced here of a derivation
> > "swallow" > "edge". Nor am I.
>
> There's nothing more to be said if you insist on a wilful
> misreading of the text; I understand <sannolikt> 'likely,
> probably' to mean exactly what it says.
> Had it been <möjligt>, you'd have had a point --In that case too.
> but in that case I'd not have said 'So does Hellquist'.Probably not, but so what? I pointed out Hellquist wasn't entirely