Bear, eagle

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:19:00 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> Also Hitt. haras, haranas "eagle"; memiyas, memiyanas "word, thing",
> etc., and other examples like the OInd. i/n-stems. I think that, at
> least in most of these cases, the -n- was originally part of the

root,

> and was lost in the nominative in various ways (**-ni > *-n^ > *-i;
> maybe **-nu > *-{nw} > *-u in the "tree"-words above; possibly

regular

> loss of -n- in the cluster -ns for the Hitt. examples, cf. acc.pl. -

us

> < *-ns).
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Loose thought:

W.Germ. N.Germ.
bear bjørn
(adel-)aar ørn 'eagle'

Were they PGmc a(?)/n-stems (term just invented)?

Torsten