Re: [tied] OE "afor"

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:36:00 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:14:55 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> is this word cognate with German "eifer"?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> If yes what is its etymology?
>>
>> *aibhros
>>
>it seems to me the "i" is too much in the reconstructed word for
>Germanic. What speaks for "ai-" in *aibhros ?

Everything. OHG ei = OE a: < PGmc. *ai < PIE *ai/*oi.

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