Re: [tied] das Wort

--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Miguel Carrasquer
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> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] das Wort
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> > Perhaps then Germanic (ga-)warr- "confusion" (> Pol.

gwar "turmoil, fuss")? Not sure if it's in Gothic, but since it also
gives Romance *gwerra "war", it was apparently available.

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> But isn't the Gmc. root *wers-/*werz-? If so, EGmc. *ga-werzan-

doesn't fit.

>
> Piotr

Odd. Y'all have just discussed, by some coincidence, two words
containing an unwanted dental suffix, <salt> and <word>. One might
even connect them by the alternation t/dH. Suppose they are both
derived from verbs meaning respectively "pickle, preserve, spice"
(considering the "sweet" connection) and "speak?

Torsten