At 10:24:51 PM on Saturday, January 14, 2006, Patrick Ryan
wrote:
> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>> At 9:14:57 PM on Saturday, January 14, 2006, Patrick Ryan
>> wrote:
[...]
>>> Is loss of ON final -r regular for _actual_ loans into OE?
>> Loss of inflectional final <-r> is indeed regular.
> Are there two or three other convincing examples you could
> furnish without too much trouble?
<knife>, ON <knífr>
<leg>, ON <leggr>
<gowk> 'a fool', ON <gaukr> 'a cuckoo'
<beck> 'a brook', ON <bekkr>
<wrong>, ON <vrangr>
<nithing> 'a coward, a villain; an outlaw', ON <níðingr>
<riding> 'an administrative district' (as in the East, West,
and North Ridings of Yorkshire), ON <þriðjungr> 'a third
part'
<both>, ON <báðir>
ME <leik>, <laik> 'sport, play, activity' ON <leikr>
OE <dreng>, ON <drengr>
Any number of late OE and ME personal names, e.g., <Orm> (ON
<Ormr>), <Ingerith> (ON fem. <Ingiríðr>), <Syerith> (ON fem.
<Sigríðr>).
Brian