Re: Why there is t- in German tausend "thousand"?

At 9:43:15 AM on Sunday, November 10, 2013, Grzegorz
Jagodziński wrote:

> Let me start from the 1st Shift / Grimm's "Law" (rule in
> fact). It is often treated as exceptionless but in real we
> should have doubts. For example, the English "touch" and
> "take" look like cognate of the Latin tangere with *t-
> preserved.

English <touch> is a borrowing of OFr <tochier>, from VLat
*toccare, so it’s irrelevant.

Brian