Re: [tied] Romanian gheara 'claw' is really a cognate with ONorse k

At 8:04:43 PM on Sunday, December 11, 2005, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> I found that the Romanian word 'gheara' eng. 'claw' is a
> cognates with ONorse klo: (< PIE *klo:wo: kle:wo:). The
> OldNorse words is the source of the English word 'claw'

The English noun is from OE <clawu>, refashioned on the
basis of the oblique cases from earlier <cléa>, which
survived as dialect <clee>into the 19th century; ON <kló> is
a different word, and the editors of the OED consider its
relationship to <claw> uncertain.

Brian