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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

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> At 10:24:51 PM on Saturday, January 14, 2006, Patrick Ryan
> wrote:
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> > From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>
> >> At 9:14:57 PM on Saturday, January 14, 2006, Patrick Ryan
> >> wrote:
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> [...]
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> >>> 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'

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Patrick:

Brian, you posted an almost immediate response, which I have YET to
receive in my INBOX.

I had to go to Yahoo! Groups to see this and be able to respond to
it.

I should have taken a deep breath before I asked for elaboration.

I meant to ask if there were other examples of


ON -eir -> OE -ey in a loan.


Thank you for your previous answer.

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