From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 38057 Date: 2005-05-24
Daniel J. Milton wrote:
> The Eng. 'fall' (no etym. beyond OE in Watkins, Balt. and Arm.
> relatives in Buck and Pokorny) is unrelated.
The strong verb *fall-an- occurs everywhere in NWGermanic, and it's
non-attestation in Gothic may well be accidental. The external
"cognates" are indeed few and uncertain.