Re[2]: [tied] Re: Etymology of PIE *ph2ter

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 42733
Date: 2006-01-02

At 2:01:19 PM on Monday, January 2, 2006, Miguel Carrasquer
wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:15:47 +0000, Richard Wordingham
> <richard@...> wrote:

[...]

>>As for _daddy_ itself - might not that
>>derive from the /d/ of OE _fæder_ 'father'?

> No, it's from da-da.

Why not from <dad>? Or would you simply allow <dad> as a
possible intermediate step, with both da-da > daddy and
da-da > dad > daddy?

Brian