Re: BITUMEN was IS PIE * DERU EXCLUSIVELY INDO-EUROPEAN ?

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

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> At 4:57:14 PM on Sunday, January 27, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
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> > And btw Sw kåda "resin"
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> NIc <kvoða>, OIc <hváða> 'glue, lime, resin'.

How does that add up? AFAIK the development hw- > kv- (> k-) is
otherwise only found in Norwegian, not in Standard Swedish. Or are you
hinting that because of the variants, the word must be a loan?


Torsten