Re: Negation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> Ibero-Romance laverca could only have 4 sources
> 1. Suevian ==since it's most common in Galician, and they ruled

Galicia c. 409 -525

> 2. Gothic --since the Goths ruled Hispania c. 416-711
> 3. Vandalic --ruled much of Spain c. 409-430; but we know almost

nothing about their language

> 4. Frankish --i.e. a loanword from French or from Franks who

filtered into Spain

>

OK I got the direction of borrowing wrong.

So from the evidence of <la:werce>/<la:ferce> (early form <la:uricæ>)
and <æ:fre> one can conclude that the change /-wr-/ > /-vr-/ is
regular in Old English?

Andrew