Re: Møller on *w-r- "guard"

> I think if they were, Møller would have quoted it, which he does of
> other roots. That's the interesting thing, the Semitic-looking words
> appear mainly in Germanic. This is the basis for Vennemann's proposal
> of a Semitic (I think AfroAsiatic) language spoken in Western Europe
> which he calls Atlantic and from which substrate Germanic (or one of
> its predecessors, later passng on the loan etc) would have taken over
> those words when it arrived in Europe.

Oh, daher weht der Wind! I see.

> I left out some of Møller's Semitisch-Indogermanisch cognates (as he
> saw them) on *w-r- meaning "growth, garden",

Hm... <werden, wurde+ward, (ge)worden> as well? Although there
is the old connotation "turn".

> Torsten

George