From: stlatos
Message: 68003
Date: 2011-08-27
>Why would it begin with *laiw- ?
> In fact, it should be dismissed. The reconstruction which I had seen was WGmc *larw(a)riko:n in the AHD, evidently a misprint for *laiw-. No connection with *larr- 'meadow' can be justified.
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> It remains likely that we are dealing with a borrowed compound. Finnish seems to have borrowed only the first element, appending its native -nen. So far I have no concrete hypothesis on the sense of the compound or its source.Why would they borrow the begining and end and not the middle? If PGmc was *laiw- and -o:N , that would makes it even odder.
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