Re: [tied] OE "afor"

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> The OE form <a:þexe> is qualified as "verderbt" by Pokorny. *awi or
> *agi doesn't normally develop into OE /a:/. Even if it did, that
> would give you *awibhros or *agibhros, never *abhros.
>
> The etymology is *aibhros, case closed.
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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OK, thank you. In this case there are two posibilities: substratual
language of Rom. handled PIE *ai/*oi reducing them to "a" or "aprig" is
not cognate with "eifrig". The curiosity remains that the German
linguists hesited to give the simply *aibhros as etymology, prefering to
say "Herkunft liegt im Dunkel."

Alex