[tied] Re: Ducks and Souls

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

> 19-09-03 13:24, tgpedersen wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> > <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> >> ... Such colouring may easily happen even under stress, e.g.

PGmc.

> >> *kweman- > Goth. qiman but OE (etc.) cuman 'come'.
> >
> > I think it's reshaped from the ppp. You can't live long with a

verb

> > that goes -we-/-wa-/-u- cf. Swedish simma "swim". Analogy
>
> Then take any other example where analogy can be ruled out: OE

cwicu ~

> cucu 'living' or OE cwidu ~ cudu, OHG quiti ~ chuti 'cud'.
>

Isn't the latter from the "innards" word of Schrijver's 'language of
geminates' we discussed before, thus a loanword?

Torsten