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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> At 3:19:16 AM on Saturday, September 22, 2007,
> fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> > What is your own explanation ?
>
> For OE <brid(d)>? I have none: I've never seen a concrete
> explanation that was at all convincing. And I consider an
> admission that we don't know far preferable to a highly
> implausible explanation.
Here's my explanation (simplified to be more like standard, thus
leaving some parts out). See some of my previous descriptions for more.
*ptero+ 'wing'
*pteryo+ 'at/on/in wing'
*petno+ 'feather'
*petnyo+ 'at/on/in feather'
like:
*kY(e)rd 'heart'
*kY(e)rdi 'at/on/in heart'
*ekYspteryó/ekYspetnyó+ 'out from under wing'
*ekYspteryó/ekYspetnyó+s 'fledgling'
From PIE to:
*ekYspetnyó+ > *essidnyo+ > *essi:ne/isse:ne > MIr essíne, Gaelic
isean 'young bird, chicken'
*ekYspteryó+
*ekYpteryó+
*ekYpretyó+
*epretyó+
*ephrethyó+
*ebhredhyó+
*ebredyó+
*ebredyá+
*ibridyá+
*bridyá+
OE bridd / bird 'young bird, chicken'
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