Re: Kuhn's ar-/ur-language

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> > > but I cannot see how oddi "landspitze" can derive from *amt or
> > > *oN&t "horn or even worse ox&t "way, track"
> > > What could be the pre-form of ON oddi ?
> > >
> >
> > The preform of <oddi> is *<uzdan-> (or *uzden-), related to OE <ord>
> > "point, spear-point, spear; source, beginning; front, vanguard;
> > chief, prince", OHG <ort> "Spitze, Ecke, Ende, Endpunkt, Rand"
> > (NHG <Ort> "place, locality" < *"point" (perhaps on a map)), OS
> > <ord> "Spitze".
> > Cf. ON <oddr> "Spitze, Speer, Anführer> and <oddi> also "ungerade
> > Zahl" (> English <odd>).
> >
>
> I'll make the pre-pre-form *an,Wet- > õget- > *õz^t etc then.
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>
> Torsten
>

Maybe, but Kluge compares *uzda- to Lith <usnìs> "thistle" and
Albanian <ušt> (his spelling) "ear of corn", suggesting a pre-pre-form
*us-.

Andrew