Re: [tied] Re: HRIM

At 2:05:19 PM on Sunday, March 20, 2005, Gordon Barlow
wrote:

> the O Et D offers *ghreghwos

I imagine that it actually has *e:, not *e.

> as the origin of "grey", for instance. Well, the -w- seems
> gratuitous,

It's forced by the data (OHG gra:o, pl. gra:we).

> but an -os attachment has probably come down to us in
> English as -ish - among many variants, of course.

Certainly not: the adjectival suffix <-ish> is from PGmc.
*-iska-. If I'm not mistaken the *-o- is thematic and the
*-s is inflexional.

Brian