Re: [tied] Re: PIE i- and u-stems again

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 47498
Date: 2007-02-16

At 4:26:35 PM on Thursday, February 15, 2007, tgpedersen
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bmscotttg" <BMScott@...>
> wrote:

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
>> <tgpedersen@> wrote:

>> [...]

>>> It occurred to me:
>>> 1) kvinna/kona is the only word in ON to act up this way.

>> Exactly what way do you have in mind?

> I should have said 'noun'.

Not a noun, but there's <tolf> '12', which appears on the
Rök runestone as <tualf> (and <tolfta> as <tualfta>). That
certainly looks like another example of Cwa- > Co-.

[...]

Brian