Re[2]: [tied] Re: *kap-

At 3:32:33 AM on Tuesday, October 4, 2005, Piotr Gasiorowski
wrote:

> Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> (By the way, Layamon (early 13th c.) has <remes>
>> 'ravens', but to judge by the OED, the /v/-less forms of
>> this word seem to have been abandoned early.)

> This is an early (OE) assimilation: <hræfn, hrefn> [-vn]
> --> <hræmn, hræm(m, hremn, hrem(m>, cf. wi:f-mann >
> wimman(n.

That was clear from the other OED citations, and not
unexpected, given ON <hramn>, which I knew, and similar
Cont.Gmc. forms at least in names. But it seemed to me that
the important point here was that it died out.

Brian