Re: [tied] Re: Ford -furta- fare

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 5714
Date: 2001-01-22

There's no error there, just lack of clarity. Their pre-Teutonic (pre-Proto-Germanic) means in fact PIE. Terminologically, OED historical linguistics is out of date by some 100 years. When revising the dictionary for the new edition they added several thousand entries, supplied recent examples of use, modernised the phonetic transcription etc., but they apparently lacked the time and money to hire twenty or thirty historical linguists and have the etymological information thoroughly checked, corrected and consistently updated. Pity.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: stefan
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:31 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Ford -furta- fare

Sorry, Piotr, but when I use OED I simply follow their terminology.
I am aware that PC has caught up with lingustics and that it is no
longer proper to say "pre-Teutonic" even if most people will know
what it means. So, Proto-Germanic is just playing with words. I
wonder if OED will change all their
Pre-Teutonic and Aryan to Proto and PIE - a massive job.

As for your correction of PIE  *prtus- to PGmc *furd , here again I
was merely following OED. Perhaps, you should write to the Editor
pointing out their error?
This is their text: "OHG. furt (MHG. vurt, mod.Ger. furt):-WGer.
*furdu-z:-pre-Teut. *prtú-s.

Stefan