Re: [tied] Re: Permian

On 2006-04-20 15:40, Daniel J. Milton wrote:

> 'Broom'(<OE 'bro:m') and 'bramble' (>OE 'braembel'), are they related?
> A biography of a famous composer I once read pointed out that in
> old France he might have been a Plantagenet but in north Germany he
> was just a Brahms.
> Dan

They are related. OE bre:mel comes from *bro:m-ila-. The /b/ is of
epenthetic origin, as in the pl. bre:mlas > bremblas.

Piotr