Re[2]: [tied] Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families)

At 9:14:57 PM on Saturday, January 14, 2006, Patrick Ryan
wrote:

> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer
>> <mcv@...> wrote:

>>> I just cited it: they (from ON þeir, replacing OE híe,
>>> héo).

>> Though possibly eased by cognate _þa:_ 'those' in Old
>> English.

[...]

> It seems to me that the explanation is much easier if we
> consider _Þa:_ to have been influenced/contaminated by
> _Þeir_.

> Is loss of ON final -r regular for _actual_ loans into OE?

Loss of inflectional final <-r> is indeed regular.

Brian