Re: *ka/unt- etc, new conquests, a whole bundle of them

From: bmscotttg
Message: 65260
Date: 2009-10-16

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

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

[...]

>> That *xarug- thing [...]

> I see it's never been considered an u-stem. Is OIcel. <hörgr> an
> a-stem in OIcel.?

Cleasby & Vigfusson, Zoëga, Fritzner, and Köbler all make it an
a-stem. In _Deutsche Mythologie_ Jakob Grimm gives a nom. pl.
<hergir>, which would make it a u-stem, but I've not found that
in any other source, and I don't know his justification. On the
other hand, Campbell says that OE <hearg> is a u-stem that's been
mostly assimilated to the a-stem declension.

Brian