Re: Andere

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> 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

Quite strange. How can it be explained in the light of Gk andr-, man
or as it is used in the compound word androgyny 'male'?

Loreto