Re: OE *picga

--- In cybalist@..., "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@..., "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...>
> > wrote:
> >> --- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >>> Da. galt "hog" cf Sanskr hud.u- "ram"; PIE g'Holdu-
>
> >> Danish galt comes from Pokorny root g^Hel no. 2 'cut'. I'd

never

> come across PIE /l.d/ > Skr /ud./ before
>
> > Falk & Torp says (re gilt "gelded sow" etc): The meaning "gelded
> sow" is secondary and due to influence from High German
> gelzen "castrate".
> > The Sanskrit word they derive from g'Hel- "scream".
>
> Why not to influence from Old Norse gelda 'geld'?
>
> Richard.

I don't know. They don't say.
Background information: Falk & Torp are Norwegian. Ibsen (I think it
was) and his contemporaries called the 450 years of Danish-German
rule of Norway "Danske-natten".
Perhaps they overlooked ON gelda.

Torsten