From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 34843
Date: 2004-10-25
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"Doesn't matter: the 'alder' word isn't a name theme at all,
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>> At 9:22:36 AM on Saturday, October 23, 2004, tgpedersen
>> wrote:
>>> Here's my bid:
>>> Old European *alisa- (> *alira > *alra > English alder,
>>> with metathesis German 'Erle'; Spanish 'alisa') +
>>> Nordwestblock -k. So 'alder-man'.
>> No. OE <alor> (<alra> is the gen.pl.) does not appear as
>> a prototheme; neither, so far as I know, do its Gmc.
>> cognates.
> Yes. As you should have noticed, my proposal is not
> dithematic name.