Re: [tied] Last Gasp.... was Help with Germanic & Scythian etymology

At 12:41:53 PM on Sunday, October 22, 2006, A. wrote:

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> 2) Also, [Nennius] mentions "Fethuir" - any chance that is
> a cognate of the English 'father'?

Seems very unlikely; among other things, the OE was <fæder>,
and the change from [d] to [ð] didn't come until much later,
in ME.

Brian