Re[2]: [tied] Whence Grimm?

At 4:47:11 AM on Thursday, April 1, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:

> BTW the names 'Sciri' and 'Bastarnae' are good evidence
> that these peoples spoke some type of Germanic. And the
> word 'saddle' (PGmc *saðula, cf Slavic sedlo, Latin sella
> < *sed-la) which because it is different from what we'd
> expect in an inherited Germanic word (cf. Geraman Sattel
> "saddle", Sessel "seat") must be a loan.

Not the only possibility: Watkins suggests the possibility
of a suffixed o-grade *sod-dhlo-.

Brian