Andere
From: tgpedersen
Message: 31455
Date: 2004-03-16
Vennemann finds <andere> "woman" in both Basque and Old Irish; even
Trask, that debunker ;-), agrees that it might be a loan.
Kuhn finds a suffix <-andr-> in Nordwestblock rivernames. This might
have to do with why many European rivernames are feminine, a fact
Vennemann proposes to explain as an IE reinterpretation as feminine
of the Basque definite suffix <-a>.
Torsten