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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> > You mean *xanapaz by "eastern loans", don't you?
>
> *xanapiz, to be precise
I cited after J. Voyles's _Early Germanic Grammar. Pre-, Proto-, and
Post-Germanic Languages_ ("First, the best indicator for dating the
1ST SS is the attestation in several Gmc. languages of the word
for 'hemp', namely OI <hampr>, OE <hænep> and OHG <hanaf>. Its Gmc.
antecedent was probably the masc. a-class *hanapaz."). It seems he
doesn't know his Proto-Germanic, does he?
Sergei